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Majestic Plastic? Or Waste That Won’t Die…

Sep 10, 2010Ali Geering-KlineChildren's Health, General Insights, Plastics, Uncategorized

We’ve written about the Pacific Garbage Patch before. This huge mass (twice the size of Texas!) of discarded plastic shows that when it comes to throwing away plastic, there simply is no Away. All those forgotten plastic toys, cups, bottles, lighters and other...

Generation Green’s Environmental Health Tip of the Week

Feb 19, 2010Ali Geering-KlineTips

The Center for Environmental Health is working on a number of projects to protect children and families from dangerous chemicals in plastics, like Bisphenol-A in plastic water bottles and canned food linings and lead in fake leather plastic. But the problem with...