Planet Earth is like a restaurant for humanity. If you focus on keeping the restaurant clean you won’t feed many people. If you never clean it up it will become toxic in short order. If you clean as...Read More
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 pla...Read More
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 ...Read More
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 t...Read More
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 mil...Read More
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 th...Read More
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....Read More
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....Read More
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 th...Read More
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 iss...Read More