Sentences with phrase «of plastic bag waste»

This simple change can save your family nearly a pound of plastic bag waste each year.

A ban on single - use plastic bags was one of several options put forward in January by a task force Cuomo created to study the issue of plastic bag waste.

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Their contribution to urban waste is negligible: a recent Toronto street - litter survey found plastic retail bags constitute less than 1 % of total garbage.

The distribution of plastic bags has been identified as a key environmental concern and has been called out by municipalities as a large contributor to land - fill waste.

Maybe it's making for «no straw» in your drink when you go out, bringing your own bags to the grocery store, getting coffee or a smoothie in your own cup / jar, bringing your own silverware when you're out and about, switching from paper to cloth napkins, buying bread from a local bakery or making it yourself instead of buying in plastic, switching to a menstrual cup or washable cloth pads instead of disposable, there's so many different ways to produce less waste.

We try to cut down the amount of waste we produce — we've eliminated most of our paper towel use (it takes us a couple months to go through one roll now), and we wash and reuse resealable plastic bags.

Oh, and it's nice to receive a resealable bag that's full versus a big plastic tub that's less than halfway full is just a complete waste of packaging.

«Conservatively, we can identify at least 56,000 tonnes of plastic entering our environment every year, [including] beverage litter, tyre dust, synthetic fibres, production waste, microbeads and plastic bags,» Boomerang Alliance national policy director Dave West said.

Now packing a lunch box everyday can mean a lot of waste, paper bags, napkins, plastic bags, wrappers, forks, water bags, you name it, straws and more.

This Western interpretation of a traditional Japanese Hapi coat was inspired by the plethora of plastic shopping bags that fill our landfills, blow across our streets, and waste our limited...

In Naperville, park district officials have posted plastic bag dispensers throughout the many walking trails in hope of deterring the waste.

Made from petroleum, plastic bags are contributing to enivonmental degradation around the world, clogging our oceans, and are an enormous waste of money.

Katie Anthony, a mother of two and a Seattle - based blogger at KatyKatiKate.com, cloth - diapered for her first baby but crossed over for her second, lamenting, «When you pull the Diaper Genie bag out of the pail, and you just see this blue plastic tube full of NASA - invented synthetic fibers that are soaked in human waste, and it's just this foul little sausage, there's a part of me that is really sad.»

I make an effort to waste as little as possible and the food I purchase either doesn't come in a package (like fruits and veggies), comes in recyclable packaging (like canned beans or a jar of applesauce) or we buy in bulk (like nuts and grains) and reuse the plastic bags until they are no good.

Use reusable grocery bags so you don't have to waste thousands of disposable plastic bags every year.

Every now and then I still use a plastic sandwich bag or piece of foil, but I've been able to greatly reduce our family's environmental lunch waste by purchasing many of these items.

On my personal opinion such as — wipe warmer, changing table, diaper waste pail, nursing pillow, crib bedding, diaper bag, baby bathtub, bamboo seat, anything plastic made bottles or verity of toys etc..

A small proportion of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top of the bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.

Reynolds is just one of many parents who ascribe to a zero - waste philosophy, making their own diaper paste, storing their breastmilk in mason jars instead of plastic bags, and even sharing breastmilk to keep from using formula.

Supporters of the plastic bag fee say it's designed to cut down on environmentally harmful waste and surcharges in other cities have worked better than outright bans.

«It's unfortunate, but not surprising, that the State Senate would vote to mandate that New York City waste billions of plastic bags each year,» said Councilman Brad Lander, a Brooklyn Democrat and one of the bill's sponsors.

A mayoral spokeswoman said de Blasio would work with the council to reduce plastic - bag waste as part of the city's environmental goals but declined to weigh in on the proposal.

A whole bunch of issues were not resolved during the budget process, from voting and ethics reforms to gun control, child sexual abuse victims, cash bail, plastic bags, food waste and more.

«Mayor de Blasio's OneNYC made a major commitment to sending zero waste to landfill by 2030, including through reducing the use of plastic bags,» said spokeswoman Amy Spitalnick.

Lined with plastic bags, the so - called rocket boxes could be reused, but after a while landfills refused to accept the bags of waste.

University of Adelaide researchers have developed a process for turning waste plastic bags into a high - tech nanomaterial.

Your chairs, synthetic rugs and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa, rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum, scientists are now reporting.

Over in England, Silo, a coffeehouse, brewery, and restaurant, has gone entirely zero - waste by trading directly with farmers, opting for furniture made from recycled materials like industrial floor tiles and filing cabinets, and serving on plates and platters made of plastic bags.

A reusable utensil set and tote bag are other compact, useful items to pack that can save you a lot of unnecessary plastic waste when you're eating out in a new place.

On top of that, plastic bags are the second most common ocean waste (after cigarette butts) and they harm thousands of species of ocean wildlife each year (with an estimated 40,000 + pieces of plastic floating in each square mile of the ocean!).

Made from petroleum, plastic bags are contributing to enivonmental degradation around the world, clogging our oceans, and are an enormous waste of money.

From recycling more everyday items like glass and plastic bottles and unwanted electrical goods to reducing our food waste, re-using carrier bags or trying out new things like home composting, there's lots we can all do to help cut back on the amount of waste we send to landfill.

Everything on the island is waste, from bags of maggot - infested food to piles of glass and plastic bottles, and in this brief moment, we're left to ponder the waste of human adaptation.

The Green Police are out to crack down on every kind of consumer waste from shoppers using single use plastic bags at the supermarket to police drinking out of Styrofoam cups.

Make sure your kit includes doggie essentials as well: food & treats, leash, bowls, water, plastic bags (for collecting waste), a favorite toy, blanket or towel, bandages, your pet's medical history, and recent photos of your dog in case he goes missing).

Bring along plenty of plastic bags, Mutt Mitts, or a poop scoop for cleaning up waste, and bring towels from home for muddy paws.

And, of course, plastic bags are essential for picking up your dog's waste and (if necessary) carrying it out with you.

The bags are made of a unique plastic with advanced EPI technology that takes fewer weeks to biodegrade than other competing waste bags.

Pet waste currently contributes trillions of plastic bags that ultimately leads to plastic pollution, and it is a category that has yet to be addressed with a sustainable solution.

I always steer clear clay and anything that has scents originally I used blue buffalo walnut litter but the clumping effect was not where I wanted it to be and it tracked everywhere Bc of it color it also stared to stain my carpet and babies footies I stumbled across okocat and well all 3 of my cats love it and I do as well it clumps no smell natural best part I no longer make waste with plastic bags because it is flushable and wow do these boxes last with 3 cats constantly purchasing litter gets expensive now they get superior litter at a good price and less trips to purchase everything I've been wanting in litter best of all my carpet no longer stains HAPPY CATS HAPPY HOME thank you okocat

As noted on his website, Cannella discovered that plastic bags take thousands of years to break down, are the least recycled material and comprise the fourth highest generated waste in the U.S. (the top three are paper, yard trimmings and food scraps).

Some of the containers are open waste baskets lined with plastic bags — others are semi-closed boxes or bags.

Deserted white sand beaches and crystal clear waters offer a rich diversity of marine life, but sadly much coral bleaching and in some areas plastic waste — take a rubbish bag to fill up when you snorkel, and refuse single - use plastic.

Please collect dog waste in plastic bag and dispose of in red bin.

For this exhibition, Yeapanis has reduced her material choices and palette to colors found in three, regularly discarded types of material: tan - colored cardboard boxes and shipping tubes, multi-colored plastic dog waste bags, and the ivory tones of raw hand - spun wool.

The source of ocean plastic pollution is usually assumed to be mismanaged waste — those plastic bags and containers that get missed by the recycling truck or blown away in the wind.

Many of the more than 2,000 post-secondary institutions across the United States have already implemented their own versions of waste - reduction, such as campus thrift stores, «free» stores, composting initiatives, places to recycle household items like carpeting and electronics, and elimination of plastic bags.

I have not yet solved the problem of plastic wrap around cheese or tofu, the plastic bags from bread, tortillas and English muffins (I bring them to the community garden for folks to carry their harvests home, but that only postpones their trip to the waste stream) or what to do with milk bottle caps and tortilla chip bags.

I rode my bike everywhere, I washed all my plastic bags to re-use them, I was a vegetarian and a proud dumpster diver (doing the good work of liberating food waste!).

Ever since June of 2007 when I put a bag under my kitchen table and vowed to acquire no new plastic, I've been collecting my plastic waste.