With everyone around the world becoming environmentally conscious, there is the thing of hazardous and non-hazardous waste that preoccupies almost everyone. According to Wikipedia, hazardous wastes are wastes that have substantial or potential threats to public health and the environment. Hazardous wastes are most of the times industrially produced, and these are responsible for the…
5 Ways to Convert Excrement into Environmentally-Friendly Use
Recycling of excrement, which refers to human waste – feces and urine, has several benefits. On average an individual produces fifty liters of feces and five hundred liters of urine. In this post, we will see that rather than disposing that human waste in landfills or releasing it in nature, excrement may be exploited in…
7 Easy Ways to Reduce Ocean Plastic Pollution
With skyrocketing plastic production and low levels of recycling, our poor waste management of plastic pollution is still one of the greatest concerns of our ocean health worldwide. Between 4 and 12 million metric tons of plastic fill the ocean each year. This amount of plastic can cover every foot of coastline on the planet!…
Effect of Recycling Plastic Water Bottles on the Environment
With the invention of plastic so many things changed in our daily lives so we need to ask how to recycle plastic bottles? Glass bottling started to become obsolete and plastic became the answer to packaging items. The popularity of plastic became a huge problem since humans now use almost 20 times more plastic than…
5 Tips When You’re Stuck In A Hurricane
When hurricanes or tropical storms are forecast to reach us, we often go into a panic and fear the worst about the coming storm. The uncertainty of the storm provokes a certain in anxiety in most of us. Some of those fears are very real, as government officials ask residents to evacuate areas directly in…
The film that environmental organizations don’t want you to see!
Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a 2014 documentary film which explores the impact of animal agriculture on the environment, and investigates the policies of environmental organizations on this issue. The film looks at various environmental concerns, including global warming, water use, deforestation, and ocean dead zones, and suggests that animal agriculture is the primary source of environmental destruction. Download the…
How Do We Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
In the face of World Environment Day, we cannot deny the fact that climate change is real and we are doing our best to solve it. There are a lot of actionable steps that we can undertake even in our busiest times. So in order to save the environment, we can start by reducing our…
8 Steps Closer to Zero Waste Living
Plastic and other wastes have become a huge problem in our society and environment. We as consumers have changed our habits to certain extents and sometimes it feels like there’s nothing we can do to stem the flow of single-use products on the market and later on into the landfills. That’s why there is the…
5 Reasons Why LED Lights Are Good for the Environment
Everyone is responsible for taking care of the environment and everyone should feel accountable for. Though we are already of the environmentally friendly process that exists to reduce our carbon footprint or to minimize the amount of waste we produce. Well, there are a lot of people who are still unaware of the new and…
Create an Environmentally-Friendly Home Office in 5 Easy Steps
When thinking of the environment, we go directly to conserving water, soil and what not; but have we ever thought of creating something within our homes to make the environment happy? Well if not, then why not create an environmentally friendly home office? Many companies have taken the step towards making their office environmentally-friendly and…