Environmental Shampoo
Here is a simple idea that might become a big business.
Take the idea of refillable bottles that are used now for selling high end olive oil and apply it to shampoo. Reducing the use of single use plastic containers is an attainable personal environmental goal. When you go to the kiosk to refill your shampoo bottles your actually doing something to help the planet. Continue reading “Environmental Shampoo”
Plastic Recycling
I’ve written a series of evolving posts about Plastic Straws. Here are links to all of them in sequential order. Starting with my first post ten years ago.
- Straws in Water
- Straws… Finally
- Straw Math
- Where did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw
- How Heather improves the Environment
- Plastic for the Poor
- The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws
Let me know what you think.
Recycled Confusion
I think this is a trash can that supports the fight against breast cancer. What exactly are we supposed to put in it?
Full disclosure: I’m not a good recycler. I recently proposed on this page that we stop doing it.
I also made a brilliant and slightly facetious argument that Recycling is Stealing
The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws
Howard Rotter Diving in the Philippines
In 2014 while my good friend, Howard, was wasting away from the progressive horror of ALS we suddenly had the Ice Bucket Challenge. It raised more than $115 million dollars to help fund ALS research. More importantly it gave me and many other friends of Howard something to do. It gave us a way to demonstrate that we cared. The money didn’t find a cure. Howard still died but we “didn’t stand idly by.” Continue reading “The Ice Bucket Challenge for Straws”
Prosperity Equals Cleanliness
In July I was boating with my friends Gene and Carole in New England and the story that Starbucks was stopping using straws was in the news. The New England coast was beautiful and the harbors were the cleanest I have ever seen them and yet we were being asked to stop using straws to help stop an environmental disaster. Something was discordant. Continue reading “Prosperity Equals Cleanliness”
How Heather Improves the Environment
Heather wanted to save the environment so she stopped using plastic straws, she went to a beach cleanup event, she signed a pledge to use less plastic and started using reusable grocery bags. Continue reading “How Heather Improves the Environment”
Where Did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw?
I Googled “Straws and Pollution” and on the first page of results there were a lot of ads and links that said roughly the same thing.
This one was particularly egregious. Continue reading “Where Did the Turtle get the Plastic Straw?”
Straw Math
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to direct your environmental attention into actions that will have a real effect on the environment and will not just be virtue signaling. here we go:
1000 straws weigh about 9 ounces (250 grams)
A gallon of fuel weighs about 6.3 pounds. So…. Continue reading “Straw Math”
Straws…finally
I wrote a blog post in February of 2008 warning that Plastic Straws were an Environmental Abomination. https://simonburrow.com/?p=604
Straws in Water
My opinion about straws and other environmental issues has evolved since then. Because of the video of the turtle and the straw being anti-straw has suddenly become popular. It is a great way of virtue signaling your love of the environment.
In the next post I’ll rank straws as an environmental danger compared to leisure travel, driving or swimming pools.