Category: plastic

Google pledges to ‘maximize’ recycled material in own products

Post author By Randall
Post date August 5, 2019
Categories In business, carbon emissions, carbon neutral, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Google, Google Home, google home mini, green, hardware, made by google, Nest, pixel, plastic, plastic bottles, recycled, recycled materials, shipping, sustainability, sustainable, Tech

[ad_1] These add to Google’s existing sustainability efforts. From 2017 to 2018, it cut its product shipment carbon emissions by 40 percent. Its Power Project will provide one million energy-saving Nest thermostats to families in need by 2023, and many Nest products are already made with post-consumer recycled plastic. Switching to recycled content isn’t always […]

Americans consume an alarming amount of microplastics

Post author By Randall
Post date June 5, 2019
Categories In air, americans, canada, consume, diet, Food, green, health, medicine, microplastic, particles, plastic, Research, study, Tech, tomorrow, university of victoria, water

[ad_1] The study estimates that annual microplastic consumption ranges from 39,000 to 52,000 particles, from food sources alone. When you factor in the microplastics Americans inhale, the numbers jump to 74,000 and 121,000. Americans who drink exclusively from plastic water bottles may be ingesting an additional 90,000 microplastics annually, which at the very least should […]