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… in the back of the motherhouse. The IHMs give a worm vermi-composting bin, made from recycled plastic buckets, to participating schools. Until 1976, the IHMs operated St. Mary Farm for 56 …

…  In his Small Earth Story , contributor Peter McLoughlin finds a way to get rid of his smelly plastic gas can and boost the planet at the same time: a battery-powered snowblower.  Jesse …

… up about the need to recycle, make good food choices and address the environmental danger of plastics. Plastic water bottles, he admits, drive him nuts. Magiera is now living off campus with other …

… Peter McLoughlin … You know those little two-gallon plastic gas cans for filling a lawn mower or walking down a highway to a gas station if you run … electricity, the machine feels virtuous.  It works fine (quieter even). And now I have a plastic gas can to pass on for re-use or recycling. Peter McLoughlin lives in Arlington, Ma. and …

… you were looking for small actions that an ordinary person could take. I think a reference to 'plastics' caught my eye and I realized I could just take a recent excerpt from my  blog . It's …

… started a couple months ago when I learned that Whole Foods would no longer accept Nos. 1-7 plastics for recycling. That's a bummer. Our local curbside recycling accepts plastic bottles, but what about the clamshells that berries come in? What about the No. 5's that … plastics was because their previous markets (primarily China) were no longer accepting our plastic. Finding alternate plastic recycling sources is only a temporary solution. I was going to …

… footprint on the planet. She has switched to reusable straws. She and her fiancé recycle plastics and other household items. The couple has a habit of nurturing others who don't have … and poverty. Watching families pulling electronic waste out of a landfill to burn the plastic and sell aluminum and glass so they could afford to send their children to school, she …

… during the coldest months of the year. Even on the briefest of walks, you cannot avoid finding plastic bags and bottles, beer cans, and deflated balloons on your path. I try to pick up as much …

… five recalls in 2009 and about one million pounds. Last year's foul-ups include bits of metal, plastic, glass and what the USDA gently calls "foreign objects," ones "typically found after a …

… he said on his show Aug. 5, 2019. "Today's edition of the program will focus on nondegradable plastics and how they affect us all." Odigwe's radio program focuses on raising awareness on … of plastics on our environment, Odigwe explains to his listeners how the proliferation of plastic contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. "They find their way into the rivers and oceans … eat," he says. In May 2019, Nigerian lawmakers passed a law banning the use and production of plastic bags in the country in order "to address harmful impacts to oceans, rivers, lakes, …

… we chose to highlight a  new Burning Question feature  about what parishes can do to reduce plastic waste. The answer goes to the multiple goals we have for EarthBeat reflected in the … crisis.  Gas guzzlers jam the freeways ;  food waste spews methane gas  into the atmosphere;  plastics pollute the oceans, streams and rivers . But more and more people -- and more and more …

… Bob Wegener … After the showing of the documentary Plastic Ocean at the Paulist Center a few weeks ago, which was both moving and alarming, my wife, … a few weeks since that adventure, but it has continued to impact our efforts to cut down on plastics, keeping in mind the impact on the ocean and its habitat. Bob Wegener is a Boston …

… in between. Let's say your parish recently hosted a Christmas gathering. Food was served. Many plastic forks and knives and plates were used, then tossed out. Let's say this bothered you. … Burning Question is for you: What are parishes doing to eliminate their use of single-use plastics and reduce waste?  (You can send us your questions  here . And thanks to Rita Houlihan …

… weeks since my last confession. I turned on the AC four nights, I used 9 pieces of single-use plastics, I forgot to compost, I gunned the engine twice, I ate imported fruit and neglected to …

… is partly because of the materials it takes to create an artificial tree — most are made of plastic, which are made from oil — and the carbon footprint attached to its shipment, with most …

… , Trudy Macdonald describes the efforts of her town’s recycling committee to reduce single-use plastics as one of the most effective ways of living up to the committee’s new name: Zero Waste …

… Massachusetts, for years when it finally occurred to me that reducing the use of single use plastics would be far more effective. In 2016 I joined the Melrose Recycling Committee and started working on an Ordinance to ban single use plastic bags. I have since learned a lot about how community organizing and city government work. Armed with documentaries about the effects of single use plastic in the environment, we met with city officials. We educated the community at events from …

… The pope's environmental message was also underlined by the fact that the creche is entirely plastic-free. In Boston, a church in Dedham, Massachusetts, set up a Nativity scene last week … that is meant to remind viewers about the impact of climate change. Inside the glass manger, plastic bottles and other trash float past Jesus, Mary and Joseph as they are swept away in waves …

… Service … Pope Francis blessed hundreds of figurines of the baby Jesus  – ranging from tiny plastic figures to life-sized statues  – and encouraged children to make sure they have Nativity …

… the temperature was a stabilizing 36 degrees. About a dozen cooled bodies, wrapped in plastic plus additional coverings for heads, hands and feet, were neatly stacked on metal frames. …