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Ecotipsforlife.com is not a save the planet type website. I think we can be fairly certain the planet will save and balance itself out with or without our intervention and/or meddling.
We as a human species? Not so certain. We might or might not survive our planet's balancing act. We must find our own balance, awareness and a way to co-exists with the planet in order to survive.
Ok, what is EcoTipsForLife.com then?
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Just something I need to get out there, it seems this year more than previous I am being bombarded with “Earth day sales”, from companies now suddenly aware of a new commercial holiday.
Of course we all know how earth-friendly full-blown commerce and consumption is (consumption as in “Use of final goods by a consumer until disposal.” 1)
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumption
350 350Earth day… some people try to raise awareness, some care for an entire day, and some actually care, but I digress…
Earth day has made significant differences since its first inception in the 70′s. For more info checkout the Earth Day website earthday.org or the Wikipedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_day
347 347The new Green Trance series focusses on green trends, keywords and slogans that are popular right now.
Why did I not call it Green Trends then? Simply because these keyword sometimes have the effect to leave people in a trance like state about a certain product, failing to check if the claims the products make are indeed true or, at the very least, based in truth.
So that’s why I choose Green Trance instead of Green Trends.
343 343Wikipedia: Post-consumer waste – Post-consumer waste is a waste type produced by the end consumer of a material stream; that is, where the waste-producing use did not involve the production of another product 1
This includes but is not limited to the following items: Aluminum cans, packaging (carton, plastic, etc.) Junk mail, other paper product like office paper waste, food items (kitchen scraps, food past it’s ‘use by’ date, etc.), metals (electronics, cars, etc).2 In other words any product that can be recycled after it’s been used and in most cases (unfortunately) would be discarded (in contrast to pre-consumer waste. These are products that have never reached the end-user/consumer consisting of ‘not up-to-standard’ products that would usually be discarded but have never been used 3).
Usually a product will state: this has been made with XX % of post-consumer materials, for example, Paper towels. If they have been made with an X amount of post-consumer materials it might mean that they recycled used office paper, cardboard and used paper products to create the new paper towels. Examples of this can be found in many products like Seventh Generation, Green Forest, Small Steps, and many more (nice list, for paper/kitchen towels specifically, can be found here )
So that’s it, the first post in the “Green Trance” series. Feel free to comment, add or leave remarks, they are always welcome.
1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-consumer_waste
2 http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=3369
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_consumer
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