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Are Recycled Plastic Bottles Products Really Eco Friendly?
green-talk.com - 7/24/2009
Are Recycled Plastic Bottles Products Really Eco Friendly?
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Photo courtesy of Shea Hazarian . I have always been a fan of companies such as Terracycle, which take our trash and create usable products . But when I reflect on what wonderful work they are doing, I have to wonder is this a band-aid until we realize the products we are upcycling are ...
blogs.wsj.com - 7/28/2009
Really Green Fuel: The EPA Opens the Door to Algae - Environmental Capital
— blogs.wsj.com — Forget the summer of love. This is truly turning into the summer of algae . The renewable... energy and law blog of Stoel Rives LLP, a big law firm in the western U.S, reports that the Environmental Protection Agency will count algae as an advanced ... (more) Really Green Fuel: The EPA Opens the Door to Algae - ...

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Fake Plastic Fish — ... asks, Are Recycled Plastic Bottle Products Really Eco Friendly? For years, she thought that recycling was the simple answer to the bottled beverages problem. After some research into the chemicals that could leach from the bottles into recycled products, she wonders if avoiding the bottles in the first place is the better answer. ...

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