What we do.
We provide useful resources to integrate into an enlightened lifestyle and contribute to a progressive new world. This campaign was established to give-away "free" reusable recyclable shopping bags by way of partnership members. The goal is to make conscious to reduce waste and reduce the use of disposible shopping bags.
The Clean Water Act...
A landmark piece of legislation – was passed in 1972 and has seen few changes since, despite the growing consensus of the need for more action to protect America’s rivers, lakes and streams. In a big step forward for clean water, a coalition of environmental groups succeeded in forcing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to adopt stricter standards for the management of industrial waste.
One of the major challenges is that pollution has changed since 1972. Industrial factories now discharge chemicals that weren’t even invented when the Clean Water Act was put in place, making it tough for the agency to properly regulate discharges.
More than 80 percent of the world’s forests, and those that remain cover just 30 percent of the Earth’s land area. That real estate is shrinking. Each year we lose 32 million acres (13 million hectares), 26 times the size of the Grand Canyon, or 60 acres per minute. To regenerate the resources we’re already consuming, we’d need 1½ Earths, yet our demand is still growing. No matter how you slice it, the math just doesn’t add up. Our current consumption levels cannot be sustained.
And, at the current pace, the oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050, according to a January report from the World Economic Forum and the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. A plastic water bottle, for example, takes roughly 450 years to disintegrate.
One of the easiest ways to keep plastic out of the landfill is to refuse plastic straws.
30 million tons of plastic waste generated in the U.S. in 2009, only 7 percent was recovered for recycling. This plastic waste ends up in landfills, beaches, rivers and oceans and contributes to such devastating problems as the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch, a swirling vortex of garbage the
About 1 million plastic bags are used every minute, and a single plastic bag can take 1,000 years to degrade. If you're already bringing reusable bags to the grocery store, you're on the right track, but if you're still using plastic produce bags, it's time to make a change. Purchase some reusable produce bags and help keep even more plastic out of the landfill. However, avoid those bags made from nylon or polyester because they're also made from plastic.
A cotton bag would have to be re-used 171 times.
Conquer Food Waste
Approximately 222 million tonnes of food are wasted annually at the consumer level in developed countries — an already scary number that becomes even more staggering when you take into consideration that all of sub-Saharan Africa combines to produce just 7 million tonnes more than that amount per year. (source)
Be conscious to waste less, want less, use less, refuse more, conserve more, sustain more, to have more.
Many governments succeeded in banning single-use plastic bags years ago. Their citizens considered the consequences of not caring for the environment. Just as individuals care for their own personal environment, they should also detest the gross pollution inflicted on the entire planet, our common home.
We all can help by adopting a simple routine of taking our own durable reusable recyclable bags for shopping. This simple step could help decrease plastic waste and help promote cleaner lifestyles supporting all life on Earth.