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		<title>Similarities Between The Recent Gulf Spill And Previous Oil Disasters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody that was alive plus of age in 1989 most likely recalls the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill that took place inside Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. The spill threw out approximately 750,000 gallons of crude oil. The outcome was devastating and it even resonates these days, greater than 20 years afterward, made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anybody that was alive plus of age in 1989 most likely recalls the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill that took place inside Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. The spill threw out approximately 750,000 gallons of crude oil. The outcome was devastating and it even resonates these days, greater than 20 years afterward, made more relevant by the recent Deepwater Horizon Spill within the Gulf of Mexico. Let&#8217;s take a look at the impact of the Exxon Valdez at present.</p>
<p>Efforts continue to be ongoing in cleaning up the after effects of this enormous tragedy, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a> but the results are worse than people feared. Wikipedia shows that research concludes even today the spill is having an impact that affects the area habitats around the Prince William Sound vicinity. Subsistence need to be shunned and things including wildlife of the lesser known variety of tiny creatures are always feeling the impacts.</p>
<p>The extreme impact to area people in Alaska is still continuing and that is certainly part of the cleanup procedure, as well. An article by David Ferrara recently indicates that lessons learned from the Exxon Valdez spill are helping individuals in the Gulf area to get by. Mental health issues are an appreciable part of the human distress in the spill area, although even those far removed from that region of Alaska still ended up footing the bill. This kind of secondary effect of the cleanup, as Chris Genovali shows in his editorial, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a> signifies that taxpayers have paid upwards of $8 billion to clean up the region.</p>
<p>The costs should likely continue on for decades, but that doesn&#8217;t suggest we can&#8217;t take action right away to ensure this never happens again. Oil just isn&#8217;t just for fuel, it is needed to make plastics, too. This is why green are embraced in a big way in recent years. As a result of helping decrease the demand for petroleum, we can take a stand and help out. Little changes such as turning to eco friendly are helping create less trash for the environment. We may not be able to clean up a massive tanker spill,<a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> and <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> however all of us could make a little difference in our own way, whether or not it is with bags or else reduced energy consumption.</p>
<p>Clearly, the world just isn&#8217;t yet over the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The efforts continue and the costs mount, nevertheless one day if we continue our minor improvements things may return to normal once again. Primarily, we wish to make the adjustments that will push us in the direction of a cleaner future consisting of less dependence on hazardous chemical substances in our daily lives and less waste produced, as well.</p>
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		<title>Reviewing The Lessons Learned From The Exxon Valdez</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody that was alive plus of age in 1989 most likely recalls the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill that took place inside Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. The spill threw out approximately 750,000 gallons of crude oil. The outcome was devastating and it even resonates these days, greater than 20 years afterward, made [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anybody that was alive plus of age in 1989 most likely recalls the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill that took place inside Prince William Sound off the coast of Alaska. The spill threw out approximately 750,000 gallons of crude oil. The outcome was devastating and it even resonates these days, greater than 20 years afterward, made more relevant by the recent Deepwater Horizon Spill within the Gulf of Mexico. Let&#8217;s take a look at the impact of the Exxon Valdez at present.</p>
<p>Efforts continue to be ongoing in cleaning up the after effects of this enormous tragedy, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a> but the results are worse than people feared. Wikipedia shows that research concludes even today the spill is having an impact that affects the area habitats around the Prince William Sound vicinity. Subsistence need to be shunned and things including wildlife of the lesser known variety of tiny creatures are always feeling the impacts.</p>
<p>The extreme impact to area people in Alaska is still continuing and that is certainly part of the cleanup procedure, as well. An article by David Ferrara recently indicates that lessons learned from the Exxon Valdez spill are helping individuals in the Gulf area to get by. Mental health issues are an appreciable part of the human distress in the spill area, although even those far removed from that region of Alaska still ended up footing the bill. This kind of secondary effect of the cleanup, as Chris Genovali shows in his editorial, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a> signifies that taxpayers have paid upwards of $8 billion to clean up the region.</p>
<p>The costs should likely continue on for decades, but that doesn&#8217;t suggest we can&#8217;t take action right away to ensure this never happens again. Oil just isn&#8217;t just for fuel, it is needed to make plastics, too. This is why green are embraced in a big way in recent years. As a result of helping decrease the demand for petroleum, we can take a stand and help out. Little changes such as turning to eco friendly are helping create less trash for the environment. We may not be able to clean up a massive tanker spill,<a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> and <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> however all of us could make a little difference in our own way, whether or not it is with bags or else reduced energy consumption.</p>
<p>Clearly, the world just isn&#8217;t yet over the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. The efforts continue and the costs mount, nevertheless one day if we continue our minor improvements things may return to normal once again. Primarily, we wish to make the adjustments that will push us in the direction of a cleaner future consisting of less dependence on hazardous chemical substances in our daily lives and less waste produced, as well.</p>
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		<title>The Tech Industry&#8217;s Vital Role In Environmental Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we start to consider the Green Revolution, we frequently are inclined to think of tech companies as being leaders in the charge to change the world for the better. Together with digital devices, we salvage trees by using a lesser amount of paper, for example. Nonetheless, there are two sides to every coin, Reusable [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As we start to consider the Green Revolution, we frequently are inclined to think of tech companies as being leaders in the charge to change the world for the better. Together with digital devices, we salvage trees by using a lesser amount of paper, for example. Nonetheless, there are two sides to every coin, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a> as the old saying goes, and it turns out that tech corporations do actually cope with darker environmental concerns, also.</p>
<p>One main article which has come out of late includes one of the most well known plus extensively beloved companies within the digital products realm, Apple. Reported by Lance Whitney at , the company has been combatting troubles involving its&#8217; environmental impact since 2009. At that time, a supplier Apple worked with named Wintek had been using a hazardous poison referred to as n-hexane in the touch screens it creates for iPods in addition to iPhones. This hazardous chemical has been ended, but new worries now come from the Chinese government.</p>
<p>The government of China went even further to nationalize lots of its rare earth mines as well. A report by Michael Gorman at  discovered that the company wants to scale back it&#8217;s exports of what are known as rare earths by 10% in the future. These resources are strip mined with the lethal extra materials being dumped into Chinese rivers. This change in Chinese policy implies that lots of of these materials,<a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> utilised in the assembly of hi tech merchandise, will now cost more.</p>
<p>Plainly, the technology industry does play a vital role within the wellbeing of our globe. Adjustments, environmental specialists say, may have to be made on every level if we want to keep our earth clean &#038; in good health. Lots of products we like may not utilize much energy, but they contain the kind of unsafe metals and chemicals that eco friendly shopping bags</a> in no way do. Each one of us has to <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a> make slight alterations &#038; this is only one way to do that. We have to be leaders who show that a hybrid vehicle is great, although even a small step including using  is a certain move forward.</p>
<p>Educating individuals around us on the small things, including recycling as well as mulching, that we can do to help is vital today. We&#8217;ve got to become able to reach through to individuals &#038; illustrate how 1 change from even 1 pct of the globe&#8217;s inhabitants making a single change will be 70 million changes, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> an enormous effect. Picture this with recycled grocery bags &#038; you see that&#8217;s literally millions of bags a week saved.</p>
<p>Although the technology industry is undoubtedly a frontrunner in helping us heal the planet, they also have to be wary. We need to make our own changes and not rely on companies to create those changes for us.</p>
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		<title>Do The Earth A Favor And Use Eco Friendly Shopping Bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 08:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans of Earth today. This is unquestionably not a good thing and even though most of us are aware of the existence of <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a>, we may have not yet found the main reason to use them. So let&#8217;s take a deeper look.</p>
<p>As all this rubbish flows all throughout our oceans, it is sometimes eaten by tiny creatures who&#8217;re then eaten by bigger creatures. Further up the food chain it goes until larger birds, fish plus other animals literally die from ingestion of chemical compounds that are not present within <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a>. This is often where non environmentally friendly bags wind up after the blow away from us. Therefore whereas we might not be anywhere near  the sea, we can be impacting it in our daily life.</p>
<p>People are starting to try and do things to prevent these enormous garbage patches in our oceans. As for instance, Karin Schollin at reports that Electrolux, the Swedish vaccuum maker, is aiming to literally try and is holding an art event to help increase public understanding of what&#8217;s going with these garbage islands.</p>
<p>Several solutions are being employed and several more can help. We do not need to be specialists or activists to do something as small as switch to eco or purchase products with less to throw away. Everyone is just one human being, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> but while we begin to accumulate an increasing number of individuals taking action to end this madness, we can transform the future we&#8217;re looking at nowadays.</p>
<p>As you can see, the garbage gyres within the 7 oceans are beyond disturbing. People are taking action in huge ways, though, although the greatest part is that we can all do something to make an impact. That is how we can change the world just through our daily choices in life.</p>
<p>It turns out that Earth&#8217;s oceans have what are known as gyres, currents which stream across the planet. Previously, numerous plants and animals in our seas relied on these to travel through the world&#8217;s marine ecosystems. Today, however, these systems are stuffed with garbage. Even Wikipedia shows that the Pacific Trash Vortex is not a fabrication of our imagination. There are actually huge quantities of plastics, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> toxic chemical substances and several other non biodegradable man made materials floating in the earth&#8217;s seas these days.</p>
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		<title>The Environment And Eco Friendly Shopping Bags</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 07:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans of Earth today. This is unquestionably not a good thing and even though most of us are aware of the existence of <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a>, we may have not yet found the main reason to use them. So let&#8217;s take a deeper look.</p>
<p>As all this rubbish flows all throughout our oceans, it is sometimes eaten by tiny creatures who&#8217;re then eaten by bigger creatures. Further up the food chain it goes until larger birds, fish plus other animals literally die from ingestion of chemical compounds that are not present within <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a>. This is often where non environmentally friendly bags wind up after the blow away from us. Therefore whereas we might not be anywhere near  the sea, we can be impacting it in our daily life.</p>
<p>People are starting to try and do things to prevent these enormous garbage patches in our oceans. As for instance, Karin Schollin at reports that Electrolux, the Swedish vaccuum maker, is aiming to literally try and is holding an art event to help increase public understanding of what&#8217;s going with these garbage islands.</p>
<p>Several solutions are being employed and several more can help. We do not need to be specialists or activists to do something as small as switch to eco or purchase products with less to throw away. Everyone is just one human being, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> but while we begin to accumulate an increasing number of individuals taking action to end this madness, we can transform the future we&#8217;re looking at nowadays.</p>
<p>As you can see, the garbage gyres within the 7 oceans are beyond disturbing. People are taking action in huge ways, though, although the greatest part is that we can all do something to make an impact. That is how we can change the world just through our daily choices in life.</p>
<p>It turns out that Earth&#8217;s oceans have what are known as gyres, currents which stream across the planet. Previously, numerous plants and animals in our seas relied on these to travel through the world&#8217;s marine ecosystems. Today, however, these systems are stuffed with garbage. Even Wikipedia shows that the Pacific Trash Vortex is not a fabrication of our imagination. There are actually huge quantities of plastics, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> toxic chemical substances and several other non biodegradable man made materials floating in the earth&#8217;s seas these days.</p>
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		<title>Plastic Bags Creating Giant Oceanic Gyre Islands</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 07:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lindsay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For those people who do not spend our lives at sea, we most likely are not that well aware of just where plastic bags so often end up. It turns out, several of these, together with other plastic products, are ending up in substantial floating bulks of plastic called gyres that drift across the oceans of Earth today. This is unquestionably not a good thing and even though most of us are aware of the existence of <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Bags</b></a>, we may have not yet found the main reason to use them. So let&#8217;s take a deeper look.</p>
<p>It turns out that Earth&#8217;s oceans have what are known as gyres, currents which stream across the planet. Previously, numerous plants and animals in our seas relied on these to travel through the world&#8217;s marine ecosystems. Today, however, these systems are stuffed with garbage. Even Wikipedia shows that the Pacific Trash Vortex is not a fabrication of our imagination. There are actually huge quantities of plastics, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Shopping Bags</b></a> toxic chemical substances and several other non biodegradable man made materials floating in the earth&#8217;s seas these days.</p>
<p>As all this rubbish flows all throughout our oceans, it is sometimes eaten by tiny creatures who&#8217;re then eaten by bigger creatures. Further up the food chain it goes until larger birds, fish plus other animals literally die from ingestion of chemical compounds that are not present within <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html"><b>Eco Bags</b></a>. This is often where non environmentally friendly bags wind up after the blow away from us. Therefore whereas we might not be anywhere near  the sea, we can be impacting it in our daily life.</p>
<p>People are starting to try and do things to prevent these enormous garbage patches in our oceans. As for instance, Karin Schollin at reports that Electrolux, the Swedish vaccuum maker, is aiming to literally try and is holding an art event to help increase public understanding of what&#8217;s going with these garbage islands.</p>
<p>Several solutions are being employed and several more can help. We do not need to be specialists or activists to do something as small as switch to eco or purchase products with less to throw away. Everyone is just one human being, <a href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html"><b>Reusable Grocery Bags</b></a> but while we begin to accumulate an increasing number of individuals taking action to end this madness, we can transform the future we&#8217;re looking at nowadays.</p>
<p>As you can see, the garbage gyres within the 7 oceans are beyond disturbing. People are taking action in huge ways, though, although the greatest part is that we can all do something to make an impact. That is how we can change the world just through our daily choices in life.</p>
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		<title>Florida Faces Strange Sinking Landfill Dilemma That Could Poison The Water</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 20:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EcoAl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you had not already heard, the state of Florida has a rather strange occurrence taking place. A local landfill is sinking into the Earth and, as a result, toxins are expected to leak into the local water supply. This is just one example of how our overflowing landfills are racking up the points [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In case you had not already heard, the state of Florida has a rather strange occurrence taking place. A local landfill is sinking into the Earth and, as a result, toxins are expected to leak into the local water supply. This is just one example of how our overflowing landfills are racking up the points against us as we continue to consume and discard, rather than embrace more fully the concept of recycling and reusing. We&#8217;ll take a look at the situation in Florida and discuss just how it illustrates the potential for landfills worldwide to end up being real nightmares of an ecological sort.</p>
<p>According to a recent report from WUSF http://www.wusf.usf.edu/news/2010/12/16/sinkhole_under_landfill_is_growing), the radio station for the University of South Florida, it appears that a sinkhole is opening in beneath a landfill that serves Hillsborough County about 20 miles away from Tampa, Florida. While the authorities continue to try and figure out what to do about this problem, it looks like a terrifying one, to say the least. Official measurements say the sinkhole is as deep as a 4 story building is tall. Literal tons of garbage from Tampa Bay area households has already fallen into the hole.</p>
<p>What is a major cause for concern is the fact that leachate could very well begin to leak down into the local water supplies. Leachate is a substance that is a fluid containing unwanted chemical elements, according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leachate). This type of toxic fluid seeping into the area&#8217;s wells is definitely bad news for the drinking water in this part of the Tampa area, but it is also a potential signal of a larger scale problem.</p>
<p>Tampa, Florida is certainly not the only soft soil area in the world where all the tons of human compiled garbage could fall through the earth and directly into the water supply. While solid waste is usually thought of as easier to manage than some other types of human produced pollution, once it begins to break down into leachate, the situation changes. Items like detergent containers and typical plastic shopping bags contain petroleum based chemicals we do not want in our drinking water.</p>
<p>While it is definitely difficult to singlehandedly take on the impact of an entire landfill, these waste disposal areas are all comprised of garbage from many people. That means each of us plays a role in how quickly they are filled. Such choices as using <a title="wholesale recycled bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html">recycled shopping bags</a> instead of typical plastic bags may seem small, but when you consider the way things add up, it has a huge impact. When we choose to recycle by using <a title="green custom bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/green-bags.html">green shopping bags</a> instead of opting for traditional bags, we are putting a foot forward for a cleaner world.</p>
<p>So while a sinkhole may not open in the Earth beneath a landfill near you any time soon, rest assured that if we take no action similar events are likely to continue happening worldwide. This is why it is not just Florida facing this problem &#8211; we all play a role in making daily decisions that impact the planet.</p>
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		<title>Keep Your Reusable Bags Clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EcoAl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re looking for a way to save the planet, why not consider reusable green bags? Most people use plastic bags instead of paper bags today, but those bags all end up in the landfills. They just get thrown away, because people don&#8217;t see the purpose of them. Sure, some people end up recycling them [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a way to save the planet, why not consider reusable green bags? Most people use plastic bags instead of paper bags today, but those bags all end up in the landfills. They just get thrown away, because people don&#8217;t see the purpose of them. Sure, some people end up recycling them or reusing them in some way, but most people just see them as garbage as soon as they get their groceries home and unpacked. You don&#8217;t have to be one of those people who contributes to landfills by throwing away plastic bags.</p>
<p>Getting <a title="wholesale recycled bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/recycled-bags.html">recycled grocery bags</a> is easy, and so is using them. Overall, they&#8217;re great to have around, but there are some issues that you&#8217;ll need to consider. One of those is health. If you&#8217;re reusing bags, you&#8217;re putting things into them, taking them out, and putting other things in the next time. The germs from one using can hang around until the next using, which can put some people at risk. In other words, if you use the bag to carry uncooked meat home, and then use it on your next shopping trip to carry produce home, you could contaminate that produce accidentally.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t want that kind of thing to happen, of course, so bags should be cleaned frequently. It&#8217;s also a good idea to have separate bags that you use for certain things, so that the risk of cross-contamination is lessened. It can be a little bit less convenient remembering what bag is for what kinds of items and making sure that your groceries get packed correctly, but food poisoning would be even more inconvenient. Don&#8217;t take that chance when you can easily avoid it. You can label the bags that you use, or get them in different colors &#8211; green for produce, red for meat, etc. Use whatever color combination or other system works for you.</p>
<p>There are many pros to <a title="wholesale eco reusable shopping bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/reusable-bags.html">eco friendly reusable shopping bags</a>. As long as you&#8217;re careful with the cleanliness of them, you can use them for a long time without needing to buy more. You&#8217;ll be keeping disposable bags out of the landfills, and you&#8217;ll be saving your grocery store money, too, which can help keep prices down. That&#8217;s good news for you, and for everyone else who shops there. Plastic bags are a major expense for stores that use them, because they go through so many each and every day. When fewer of them are used, everyone wins &#8211; including Mother Earth.</p>
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		<title>Plastic Bags Need to be Recycled</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EcoAl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the easiest things to do when you&#8217;re at the grocery store is to let that person who&#8217;s bagging the groceries stuff them all into flimsy, plastic bags. Those bags are purchased by the thousands by stores, and they&#8217;re used all over the place. There have been many efforts to ban these kinds of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the easiest things to do when you&#8217;re at the grocery store is to let that person who&#8217;s bagging the groceries stuff them all into flimsy, plastic bags. Those bags are purchased by the thousands by stores, and they&#8217;re used all over the place. There have been many efforts to ban these kinds of bags, but so far nothing has been done to stop them from being used in almost everything from a mom-and-pop shop to the largest of retail giants. Stores like them because they&#8217;re cheap and they&#8217;re easy to deal with. Customers like them because they&#8217;re convenient and disposable.</p>
<p>Even though they&#8217;re designed to be thrown away, though, you can help out the environment by recycling them instead. Don&#8217;t assume that you can&#8217;t recycle them. You can put them in with the plastic that you recycle on your regular rounds, or you can put them in the recycling bins that a lot of the larger stores have created just for that purpose. Some people also reuse them for trash, cat litter, yard debris, and other things, so the bags get used again. If they&#8217;re used that way, though, the ultimately get thrown in the garbage &#8211; which isn&#8217;t helping the planet out in any way.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s much better to actually recycle the bags properly, so that they can stay out of landfills. Plastic takes many years to biodegrade, and the more bags show up in the landfills the more the planet struggles. Even if you&#8217;re not that interested in starting up a recycling regimen for the plastic, glass, and paper that you use every day, you can still pay close attention to the bags that you&#8217;re handed when you shop. When you get home, pile all the bags up and stuff them into one bag. Put them back in the car, and drop them off the next time you go shopping.</p>
<p>That way it won&#8217;t be inconvenient for you, you won&#8217;t have to go someplace special to turn the bags in, and you won&#8217;t have bags accumulating everywhere. Many people don&#8217;t recycle because they don&#8217;t want the hassle, but making sure that plastic bags get recycled doesn&#8217;t have to be difficult.  Another excellent option for reducing plastic bag waste is by using <a title="green shopping bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/green-bags.html">reusable green bags</a> otherwise known as <a title="wholesale eco reusable shopping bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/reusable-bags.html">eco friendly reusable shopping bags</a>.  These convenient items can go a long way. You can make it very simple and easy to handle, and you can get your family involved so you don&#8217;t feel like you&#8217;re the only one who&#8217;s dealing with the work of making sure plastic bags find their way into the hands of those who will recycle them.</p>
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		<title>Great Ways to Help the Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 21:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>EcoAl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to help the environment, you should consider recycling &#8211; but that&#8217;s not the only thing you can do. Growing your own food, living off the grid, and similar actions are great ways to protect the planet. It&#8217;s important, but there aren&#8217;t very many people who take it seriously just yet. If you&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to help the environment, you should consider recycling &#8211; but that&#8217;s not the only thing you can do. Growing your own food, living off the grid, and similar actions are great ways to protect the planet. It&#8217;s important, but there aren&#8217;t very many people who take it seriously just yet. If you&#8217;re one of the people who really want to do something good for the planet but you just aren&#8217;t sure how to get started, there are a few things you can consider.</p>
<p>First, recycling really is important. Don&#8217;t just recycle the plastic, paper, and glass that you use in your home, though. You should also have a compost pile for your garden and lawn, and you should be recycling all of those plastic bags that the bagger stuffs your groceries into at the market. Most of those markets have containers to put those bags in, so just return them to the store (and the container) the next time you go shopping. You&#8217;ll be doing your part of the recycling before you know it, and it&#8217;s really not that difficult. It also doesn&#8217;t take up much time, so don&#8217;t worry about that.  Also remember to use <a title="green custom bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/">green bags</a> and <a title="eco shopping bags" href="http://www.factorydirectpromos.com/eco-friendly-bags.html">eco friendly shopping bags</a> when shopping.  This can make a huge difference and eliminate the need to recycle so much in the first place</p>
<p>There are a lot of cleaners and household products today that are specifically designed to protect the environment from harm. You won&#8217;t need to worry about what kinds of chemicals your family and your pets are ingesting, and you won&#8217;t have to be afraid that you&#8217;re getting chemicals into the drinking water when you rinse them down the drain.</p>
<p>By using safe cleaning alternatives, you can do your part to protect the environment and you&#8217;ll still be keeping a nice, clean house for your friends and family to enjoy. It won&#8217;t change the world, but it won&#8217;t do it any harm, either.</p>
<p>While you&#8217;re recycling and creating a compost pile, you can use that compost for a garden. Growing your own food really isn&#8217;t that difficult. You just need to find out what grows well in your part of the country and determine when you need to plant it so you can get a great harvest. You&#8217;ll also want to make sure that you&#8217;re protecting your garden with some type of fencing so that rabbits and other small animals don&#8217;t get in and eat everything. You don&#8217;t have to use pesticides that can hurt the environment and the produce, either, because there are plenty of natural alternatives to keep your garden healthy so you can enjoy its bounty.</p>
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