Companies in U.K. to cut plastic waste

The 42 firms, responsible for 80% of plastic packaging sold in Britain, have signed a pact that aims to tackle plastic pollution over the next seven years through a series of measures. These include cutting down on single-use plastic packaging, making all plastic packaging reusable or recyclable and stipulating that 30% of all plastic packaging include recycled material.

Corporate giants such as Coca-Cola, Asda, Procter & Gamble and Marks & Spencer have all signed up the “UK Plastics Pact” amid growing concern over plastic pollution, particularly in the oceans.

“This requires a whole-scale transformation of the plastics system and can only be achieved by bringing together all links in the chain under a shared commitment to act,” said Marcus Gover, head of the sustainability campaign group WRAP, which is leading the project.

Britain announced last week that it plans to ban the sale of plastic straws, stirrers and cotton buds in England, as part of a push to tackle marine pollution.

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How can we take plastics out of the ocean?

Literally you will find more plastic than marine animals in terms of weight in the world’s oceans by 2050, the World Economic Forum warned recently.

Plastic has become one of the world’s most popular materials, combining amazing functionality and very low production costs. Its use has increased 20-fold in the past 50 years and is expected to double again in the next 20 years.

Almost everybody in the world comes into contact with it — over a quarter of all plastic is used for packaging, the most popular use of the material.

But only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling.

So how do we fix this? People all over the world are gathering to clean up beaches, while new technologies to remove plastics from the ocean are currently being developed. As the demand for plastics is set to double in the next two decades, we need to look at the root cause not just the symptoms, if we really want to solve the problem. To free our ocean from plastics, we have to fundamentally rethink the way we make, use and reuse plastics, so that they do not become waste in the first place.

To create a circular economy for plastics  – we need innovations in the form of better materials, clever product designs, and new, circular business models.

The Circular Materials  economy may make the ways to make all plastic packaging recyclable or composted.

Composting – Wise waste management.

A major issue facing modern society is waste management. More simply put, what should we do with the waste we produce? A growing emphasis has been placed on the three R’s: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Composting provides a means of accomplishing all three of the R’s. Through composting the amount of garbage sent to the landfill is reduced, the organic matter is reused rather than dumped, and it is recycled into a useful soil amendment.

Natural ecosystems have a proven method of breaking down organic materials into a useful end-product: the decomposers found within the food chain break down nature’s organic waste and turn it into humus, the organic component of soil.

Composting is a way of harnessing the natural process of decomposition to speed up the decay of waste. The history of composting dates back to the history of early agriculture. Many find that composting is as much of an art as a science. Recent concern about managing wastes and producing food in an environmentally sound manner has led to a renewed interest in small-scale, backyard composting as well as an interest in developing large-scale, commercial and municipal composting systems.

Designing successful composting systems requires an understanding of certain biological, chemical, and physical processes such as the movement of air, uptake of carbon and nitrogen, and heat production and transfer.

Ecolife provides environmentally sustainable and cost effective organic waste management technologies. Ecolife provides design, equipment and commissioning for composting projects. The composting technologies promoted by Ecolife provides an environmentally sustainable solution to the organic waste problem faced in many countries. It is an environmentally sustainable solution in that it reduces the amount of waste going to landfill, processes this waste without polluting the soil, air or water, and provides an stable organic product that can be used to improve soil productivity and increase plant production. The nutrients in the compost and fertilizer products that are produced reduce the dependence on chemical fertilizer.

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Ecolife composting technologies are climate change friendly achieved by reducing methane emission from landfills through diversion of the organic waste that would otherwise produce methane. The recycling of nutrients required by plants decreases the dependency on chemical fertilizers, the production of which is an energy intensive process..

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OVER 1 ACRE OF RAINFOREST ARE DEFORESTED EVERY SECOND

OVER 1 ACRE OF RAINFOREST ARE DEFORESTED EVERY SECOND

We need our world’s forest. They are vital sources of oxygen. They moderate our climates, prevent floods, and are our best defense against soil erosion. Forests recycle and purify our water. They are home to millions of plants and animals. We are losing’s Earth’s greatest biological treasures; Rainforests those once covered 14% of the earth’s land surface; now they cover a mere 6%. It took millions of years to turn rainforests into an incredibly beautiful and complex environments they are today; It has taken only a century of human intervention to destroy what nature designed to last forever.

What Can We Do?

We can reuse paper & wood products and use recycled paper whenever possible. We can support organizations involved in rainforest conservation.  A cultural shift towards a plant-based diet would be substantial step toward saving our remaining forests. It takes far less agricultural land to produce a plant-based diet. Since forests absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, the movement towards a plant based diet would provide our children with more plentiful oxygen to breathe an atmosphere with fewer greenhouse gases, and a more stable climate.

Can We Turn Things Around? Perhaps. Perhaps Not

But, there is still time to turn things around if we act now it may dramatically perk up God’s wondrous creation that we care about and love. It would be like as if you were planting and tending a tree, helping to create a greener and healthier future for all generations to come.

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Ecological Footprint

ACT AS IF WHAT YOU” DO MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

Your Ecological Footprint approximates the area of land, air and ocean required to support your consumption of foods, goods, services, housing & energy  and assimilate your waste. Ever wondered how much “Ecolife” your lifestyle requires? IT’s easy to disregard that the choices we make every day can change how much natural resources we use. What you ear, how your family travels and even the clothes you wear all make a difference. How big is your ecological foot print?

* How many times you have been told to turn off the TV when you’re not watching it?

* Have you reminded anyone to recycle paper or cardboard?

* In a world with billions of people, does it really matter if you leave the water ON when you brush your teeth? Even if it doesn’t feel like it, little things do add up.

 REDUCE YOUR CARBON FOOT PRINT.

We know that protecting the environment is importanat; and there anre many simple wayts to reduce your impact on the Earth like: Using cleaner transport, adding energy saving features to your home, adopting energy saving habits, reducing your food foot print, adopting water saving habits, reducing your housing footprint and reducing your goods and service gootpirnt.

But don’t stop there. Amplify your impact by encouraging others to follow your lead.

NOW, ACT AS IF WHAT YOU DO MAKES A DIFFERENCE”…..BECAUSE IT DOES”

What Are Eco Friendly Products?

We all know that our consumer culture creates a huge environmental footprint. Everything from sourcing the base materials of whatever it is we’re buying, through to the manufacturing processes, the packaging, transportation and eventual disposal all result in pollution and thousands of tons of rubbish being disposed of in landfill every day.

Unfortunately though, as nice and simple as the ideal answer may be, we can’t simply all stop spending money and buying new products. Not only would the economy collapse (again!) but it’s simply not realistic in today’s world. And even if you limit your purchases to the bare essentials you’re still going to need to buy products to replace old ones as they wear out. And this is where eco friendly products come in.

Eco friendly products are designed specifically to be as sensitive to the needs of the environment as possible. Typically, environmentally-friendly products fit into one or more of several categories. Some eco-friendly products are considered green because their ingredients are safe, others environmentally-friendly products made from materials that are quickly renewable and can be used again and again.

Many eco friendly products are designed so that they can be easily and sustainably disposed of at the end of their life without contributing to the problems of rubbish disposal. Frequently this means that the products are eco friendly but the packaging it comes is plastic packaging, In short, eco friendly products do exactly what their non-eco friendly alternatives do – tons of plastic rubbish being disposed of in landfill every day

What’s the point?

A truly eco friendly product must have a eco friendly packaging too.That would make our earth green in its true sense.