New Wave Of Compostable Products Creates Recycling Conundrum

What happens when you mix up items that are supposed to be composted with your recycling, or trash? Are you doing the environment more harm or good. Check out our slideshow on new products on the market and the best way to dispose of them.

Think Outside the Bottle/Take Back the Tap

Take Back the Tap, April, 20

Bottled Water Myths  http://www.storyofstuff.com/pdfs/storyofbottledwater_myth-v-reality.pdf

Bottled Water: Get the Facts http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/water/bottled/

Corporate Accountability International: Think Outside the Bottle  http://www.stopcorporateabuse.org/think-outside-bottle/

Blue Gold, Maude Barlow

• Book http://www.amazon.com/Blue-Gold-Fight-Corporate-Worlds/dp/1565848136/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1302634088&sr=8-2
• Film: http://www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/ 

Plastic/Plankton

Chris Jordan 's work attempts to place the impact of consumerism in perspective. For his latest project he traveled to the Midway Islands, near the heart of the Pacific Trash Gyre , to photograph the decomposed bodies of chicks that have been fed plastic litter by confused parents. http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24

Pictured: One Sea Turtle’s Worth of Plastic  http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/sea-turtle-plastic/

Polymers are Forever  http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/270/

More plastic than plankton in Pacific Ocean

Reese Halter |  Calgary Herald |  01.25.2009

http://www.greenchange.org/article.php?id=3870