The No Plastic Bag Bazaar poster
The Recyclists are back with the 2nd installment of the No Plastic Bag series of events! Our aim and greatest hope is educate and promote a greener lifestyle while raising funds in support of projects by the Furry Friends Farm (FFF) and the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS).
Mark your diary now!!
WHEN? [...]
Go vegetarian twice a week. Eating one or two vegetarian meals a week is a good choice for the environment, as farming animals produces surprisingly large amounts of air and waste pollution, and causes 80 percent of the world’s annual deforestation. It also requires large amount of water, and livestock worldwide consumes half the world’s [...]
Here are some of the energy-using steps involved in making plastic bags from oil and transporting them to the grocery store:
Oil needs to be pumped from the ground with large fuel-burning machinery.
The oil is then delivered by truck or pipeline to a refining facility. It takes energy to build the pipeline and to drive the [...]
Introduced just over 25 years ago, the ugly truth about our plastic bag addiction is that society’s consumption rate is now estimated at well over 500,000,000,000 (that’s 500 billion) plastic bags annually, or almost 1 million per minute.
Single-use bags made of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) are the main culprit. Once brought into existence to tote your [...]
Recycling Can Fix This, Right? Wrong.
Recycling has its place — in fact, we offer bags made of recycled PET because we support sustainable paths for the world’s overabundance of plastic.
However, it’s not the complete solution.
Recycling rates for plastic bags are extremely low. Only 1 to 3% of plastic bags end up getting recycled.
In addition, economics [...]
