Bottled water is for fools who do what the marketers tell them...

Why anyone in a country like the Usa would drink bottled water just blows my mind. All you are doing is producing waste, slowely choking the planet with unneeded plastic.
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The new public enemy Number 1: bottled water

The Ghastly Ones

Voodoobilly + surf rock + halloween = The Crypt of The Ghastly Ones

Wow!!!

Plastic bags are killing us...

This is one of the most important things i have ever linked.
Plastic bags are evil.
It disgusts and repulses me to see people at the store putting one or two things in a platic bag. Especially when they have cool stuff such pockets and thumbs to hold things. I always request no bag when i go to the store. I can purchase 3 things at the grocery, and when i tell the clerk i dont wanna bag, its like ive been semt by al queda on a suicide mission. I can sense the clerk is seeing their life pass before them, so i tell em im just doing my part to safe artificial christmas trees. They always relax and smile then. I just laugh it off too... Even if it is wrong that im made to feel like a criminal, merely for stuffing 10 things I bought in MY pockets. I love it when they wanna put a sticker on everything i bought, to show i paid for it, like someone in security is actually paying attention.

Anyway back to the story...

The plastic bag is an icon of convenience culture, by some estimates the single most ubiquitous consumer item on Earth, numbering in the trillions. They're made from petroleum or natural gas with all the attendant environmental impacts of harvesting fossil fuels. One recent study found that the inks and colorants used on some bags contain lead, a toxin. Every year, Americans throw away some 100 billion plastic bags after they've been used to transport a prescription home from the drugstore or a quart of milk from the grocery store. It's equivalent to dumping nearly 12 million barrels of oil.

Only 1 percent of plastic bags are recycled worldwide -- about 2 percent in the U.S. -- and the rest, when discarded, can persist for centuries. They can spend eternity in landfills, but that's not always the case. "They're so aerodynamic that even when they're properly disposed of in a trash can they can still blow away and become litter," says Mark Murray, executive director of Californians Against Waste. It's as litter that plastic bags have the most baleful effect. And we're not talking about your everyday eyesore. Once aloft, stray bags cartwheel down city streets, alight in trees, billow from fences like flags, clog storm drains, wash into rivers and bays and even end up in the ocean, washed out to sea. Bits of plastic bags have been found in the nests of albatrosses in the remote Midway Islands. Floating bags can look all too much like tasty jellyfish to hungry marine critters. According to the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation, more than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic. The conservation group estimates that 50 percent of all marine litter is some form of plastic. There are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. In the Northern Pacific Gyre, a great vortex of ocean currents, there's now a swirling mass of plastic trash about 1,000 miles off the coast of California, which spans an area that's twice the size of Texas, including fragments of plastic bags. There's six times as much plastic as biomass, including plankton and jellyfish, in the gyre. "It's an endless stream of incessant plastic particles everywhere you look," says Dr. Marcus Eriksen, director of education and research for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which studies plastics in the marine environment. "Fifty or 60 years ago, there was no plastic out there."

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Please take the time to read this, and next time you purchase something, think about whether you really need a bag for it.


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