Sustainable Travel: Is Plastic-Free Grocery Store Shopping Realistic?
Every year, Canadians throw away 3 million tonnes of plastic waste, only 9% of which is recycled1. Let’s be honest, this is appalling! So what happens to the plastic that we don’t recycle? It ends up in our oceans. Single-use bags, plastic bottles, food containers, and food wrappers are the four most widespread items polluting […]
Overfishing, Conservation, Sustainability, and Farmed Fish
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10 Questions with July’s #LocalHero
This month’s #LocalHero is Nick Curran. He is involved with the organization Scotian Shores, which sets out to clean up the shores of Nova Scotia as well as raise awareness on plastic pollution. We asked him a series of 10 questions to learn more about the work he does and how important it is. 1) Tell […]
Local Hero: Elena Kulikova
Elena Kulikova, 34, was a true believer in the possibility of a clean earth and a plastic free world. She carried the vision that every person can learn to be sensible with their waste usage and conscious of the impact their lives have on our eco system, especially their use of plastic on our oceans. […]
Revaluing Plastics with BASF Pilot Project reciChain
Photograph by Sigmund on Unsplash Canada recycles just nine per cent of plastic. Some of you may be thinking, “I put my plastics in the blue bin so they should be recycled.” In an ideal world yes, they would be. Unfortunately, instead of recycling and reusing our materials, the majority of collected plastics end up […]
Managing Difficult Conversations: Fair, Friendly, but Firm
Written by Rachel Stewart-Dziama | rachel@plasticoceans.org My father has a system when it comes to managing those challenging conversations that are just a part of life. Along with a liberal amount of politeness, he always attempts to be fair, friendly, but firm. When working to avoid single-use plastics, it can be easy to lose your […]
10 Tips to Reduce Plastic
Reducing plastic is hard right? You can swap plastic bottles for reusables but what about all the plastic packaging in the grocery stores? Or all of your necessary products that come in plastic bottles? And sometimes the sustainable alternative is too expensive or too difficult to find. However, you can’t make a change if you […]
