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Going hard core: Reduce before recycle
… 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 …
Should we have kids?
… 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 …
As climate change worsens, so does our grief and distress
… 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 …
You can get your 'meat' fix without exacting a pound of flesh from animals
… 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 …
Young Catholic uses radio to press for climate action in Nigeria
… 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, …
EarthBeat Weekly: Parish survey -- What are you doing to address climate change?
… 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 …
Film inspires a plastics-free grocery trip
… 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 …
How can parishes reduce plastic waste?
… 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 …
Ecological sin: Idea of updating catechism sparks debate
… 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 …
What to do with your Christmas tree after the holidays?
… 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 …
EarthBeat Weekly: Experiencing Advent where wildlife runs free
… , 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 …
Moving on: from recycling to 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 …
'You've got to call out evil,' says pastor of church with Nativity scene separated in cages
… 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 …
Pope blesses Nativity scene statues, calls them signs of God's love
… 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 end of a well-lived life can lead you from death to dissecting table
… 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. …
Winter Climate Strike
… zero-waste event. Bring refillable water bottles/canteens, and eliminate single-use plastics and trash. …
The Advent posada is an act of resistance
… del Norte International Bridge , I saw individuals and families living on the streets with plastic makeshift tents as homes. I witnessed children without shoes, a baby with a high fever, …
The first week of Advent: Daily meditations with Laudato Si'
… where the city meets the ocean, is one of the most polluted in the world, filled with the plasticized detritus, the filth and the effluence of the city's 12 million people and the slums …
Creighton University president rejects student recommendation to divest from fossil fuels
… including a review of its investment guidelines, its carbon neutrality goals and the use of plastic on campus. The campus is also in the final stages of hiring a sustainability director. A …
Creighton awaits president's decision on student vote endorsing fossil fuel divestment
… and bylaws. According to the university, two referendums passed last year — one to remove plastic bags from campus and another to phase out plastic straws from its food service. In both cases, they supported work already under way …