Waste & Recycling News: Paper, plastic or eco? Plastic grocery bag inventor’s daughter creates reus
2011-05-02 : Designing innovative grocery bags is simply a part of Kristen Brown´s DNA.
Brown -- the daughter of Gordon Dancy, creator of the first plastic grocery bag in 1977 -- was a part of the revolutionary behavior change that happened in the 1980s when consumers made the switch to packing their foodstuff Read Full Artcle
Natural Awakenings: The Plastic Bag—A Short History
2011-04-01 : “Hi, I’m a plastic bag. I am here simply for your momentary convenience, and then I am discarded. I am one of 500 million to 1 trillion produced and shuffled off to the farthest reaches of the planet every year.” Read Full Artcle [PDF]
Fashion Show walks green lifestyles down the runway
2011-04-01 : "Students and faculty at Waccamaw Intermediate School in Pawleys Island have embraced what it means to "go green." On Feb. 3rd, the school hosted a "Gators Go Green" night, which was sponsored by Fisher Recycling. The purpose of the event was to educate students and their families about how to reduc Read Full Artcle
USA TODAY: Mama's got a brand-new bag
2011-03-29 : Her dad patented the plastic grocery bag; she designed a way to do away with it. Kristen Brown had reusable shopping bags scattered around her house... Read Full Artcle [PDF]
Going green starts early for local kids
2011-03-10 : "Reducing, reusing, and recycling is actually something that's difficult to do. You need to start at a young age to help kids understand the importance of especially reusing," says Kristen Brown, Owner and Creator of My Eco and My Eco Interaction. Read Full Post
World of Green Blog: Green Behind the Ears
2010-12-11 : Ok grasshopper, so you hear about going green all the time…hybrid cars, celebrity documentaries, carbon offsetting, but it can be a bit overwhelming. “There’s just so much, where do I start?” you ask. Well, for the general population there are a couple habits that we have that do the most da Read Full Post
Healthy Aging: Paper or Plastic, Daughter of Plastic Bag Inventor Makes A New Mission
2010-12-07 : In 1977, Kristen Brown's father, Gordon Dancy, changed the way grocery shoppers carried home their foods: in a plastic bag. His invention of the plastic sack revolutionized the grocery bag industry and was thought to have saved the consumer money and the world its trees. Four decades after the in Read Full Story
USA Today: Mom invents reusable bags to replace dad's plastic ones
2010-11-29 : Kristen Brown had reusable shopping bags scattered around her house but often forgot to take them with her to the store. One night, she had a better idea.
"I dreamed it in my sleep," Brown says, recalling how she woke up at 3 a.m. and started sketching her four-bags-in-one system. She borrowed a Read Full Story
The Ridgewood News: Kings challenge has students saying ‘no’ to disposable bags
2010-11-19 : Schools across Bergen County, including Hawes Elementary School in Ridgewood, have joined the Kings School Reuse Challenge to compete and determine which school can reuse the most.
The Kings Reuse Challenge is a collaborative partnership between Kings and local schools to ignite behavior change f Read Full Story
The Record: Inventor’s daughter creates eco-friendly bag system
2010-11-18 : Kristen Brown's father revolutionized grocery shopping with his invention – the high-density plastic grocery bag. Now, more than three decades after Gordon Dancy made "Paper or plastic?" part of the grocery store experience, his daughter is trying to revolutionize consumer habits again. If she suc Read Full Story
EcoBlog.co.za: The Eco Plastic Bag Takes Shape
2010-11-18 : With an Acrylic sheet, it is possible to fashion eco-friendly products that replace toxic materials in signage (such as store displays that incorporate an Acrylic mirror), greenhouses and much more. Companies have realized this and now eco plastic is the next trend, as in producing a material that u Read Full Story
Pascack Valley Community Life: School Reuse Challenge to raise money for schools
2010-11-18 : Parsippany – MY ECO is partnering with Kings Super Markets to rollout an initiative across the state of New Jersey that promotes environmental consciousness. This education-based program provides tools to nearly 20,000 New Jersey students on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and asks them t Read Full Story
Reveries.com: MY ECO Bag
2010-11-15 : The daughter of the man who popularized plastic shopping bags in the US has created a resuable bag intended to replace her dad’s design, reports Wendy Koch in USA Today. Read Full Artcle
The Hudson Reporter: Students say: Ban the bag!
2010-11-14 : Mayor Dawn Zimmer is used to fielding questions from the press, aides, council members, and city directors. However, last week, a new group of green-shirted citizens asked Zimmer a question of their own: why doesn’t Hoboken ban plastic bags?
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Hoboken Patch: Students Say No to Plastic Bags
2010-11-09 : Tuesday at 2 p.m., in City Hall, sixth grade students from All Saints Episcopal Day Middle School will meet with Mayor Dawn Zimmer and other distinguished guests to encourage Hoboken to ban the use of plastic bags.
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Hoboken Patch: Zimmer Discusses Green Efforts With Middle Schoolers
2010-11-09 : Hoboken's middle schoolers are trying to make the city more environmentally friendly, one plastic bag at a time.
In a meeting with Mayor Dawn Zimmer, Council members Peter Cunningham and Carol Marsh as well as some city hall staffers on Tuesday afternoon, a group of enthusiastic middle schoolers Read Full Story
Garden City Patch: Maroon and White Go Green
2010-10-23 : Garden City students are participating in an environmentally-friendly fundraiser to not only push the "green" movement but raise funds for their respective schools.
The MY ECO School Reuse Challenge is aimed at "igniting behavior change." Students can earn money as well as reward points for their Read Full Story
wbtv.com: Daughter of plastic grocery bag inventor debuts her own bags
2010-10-22 : CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - Kristen Brown has been packing up grocery bags since she was 15 years old. Grocery bags have been in her family for years.
"I have some experience in that, because my father invented the first plastic grocery bag in 1977," Brown said.
Now in her professional life she wo Read Full Story
MyCentralJersey.com: Fund-raiser is in the bag for some Somerset County schools
2010-10-22 : BRIDGEWATER — When Laura Felegi, co-president of the Bridgewater-Raritan Middle School parent-teacher organization, was weeding through dozens of fundraising catalogs, she came across something she could use and re-use: grocery bags.
My Eco was offering a set of four reusable grocery bags that Read Full Story
MyCentralJersey.com: Kings Super Markets rolls out student eco contest
2010-10-22 : CENTRAL JERSEY — MY ECO is partnering with Kings Super Markets on an initiative to promote environmental consciousness and reuse. The education program provides tools to participants on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and asks them to put these new lessons into action by taking the School Read Full Story
The Ridgewood Blog: The School Reuse Challenge
2010-10-15 : The daughter of the man who invented the plastic grocery sack, Kristen Brown, is leading a grassroots effort to change behavior in New Jersey towards reuse. In partnership with Kings Super Markets, 46 New Jersey schools are taking the School Reuse Challenge this fall. The Challenge is a fundraiser t Read Full Story
Millburn-Short Hills Patch: Kings Supermarket Partners with MY ECO in School Reuse Challenge Thousa
2010-10-15 : Kings Super Markets and MY ECO are partnering in The Kings School Reuse Challenge. The Challenge is an environmental consciousness raising effort that provides information to nearly 20,000 N.J. students, including many area kids, on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle.
Schools participating Read Full Story
South Orange Patch: Kings and Bag Maker Raise Money for SOMA Schools
2010-10-15 : Three schools in South Orange and Maplewood are participating in a unique fundraiser with Kings Super Market that is also good for the environment.
It's the Kings School Reuse Challenge, and it teams Kings, the schools and a company called My Eco that manufactures reusable grocery bags. Read Full Story
Maplewood Patch: Kings and Bag Maker Raise Money for SOMA Schools
2010-10-14 : Three schools in South Orange and Maplewood are participating in a unique fundraiser with Kings Super Market that is also good for the environment.
It's the Kings School Reuse Challenge, and it teams Kings, the schools and a company called My Eco that manufactures reusable grocery bags. Read Full Story
Pascack Valley Community Life: Eco-friendly fundraiser underway in Hillsdale Schools
2010-10-13 : Schools, MY ECO and Kings work together
Three Hillsdale schools have teamed up with Kings Super Markets to promote using reusable grocery bags. This environmentally-friendly endeavor is also a fundraiser for the schools. Kings has partnered with MY ECO, the manufacturer of the same-named shopping Read Full Story
Baristanet.com: Are You Up for the (ECO) Challenge?
2010-10-07 : That’s what schools in Baristaville, as well as across New Jersey, are being asked as MY ECO School Reuse Challenge kicks off this month. It’s a win-win-win situation according to Kristen Brown, founder of MY ECO products and an EPA Consultant, who has partnered with Kings Supermarkets to bring Read Full Story
The Daily Targum: Campaign works to reduce plastic bag usage
2010-10-05 : MY ECO, a company specializing in environmentally friendly alternatives to traditional plastic
grocery bags, teamed up with Kings Super Markets, more than 43 schools and 20,000 N.J.
students in a campaign to clamp down on the use of plastic bags.
The School Reuse Challenge, which began yesterd Read Full Story
wistv.com: Daughter of plastic grocery bag inventor debuts her own bags
2010-09-26 : CHARLOTTE, NC (WBTV) - A South Carolina woman is moving her father's invention into something more eco-friendly, and she's debuting it in this part of the country.
Kristen Brown has been packing up grocery bags since she was 15 years old. In fact, grocery bags have been in her family for years. " Read Full Story
Mountain Xpress: Daughter of plastic grocery bag inventor develops innovative reusable bag
2010-09-09 : From MY ECO: Earth Fare and MY ECO have teamed up to promote sustainable living and REUSE by introducing MY ECO Shopping Bag System to Earth Fare customers. The 4-bags-in-1 System is the first geared to the family shopper and is available in all 19 Earth Fare stores in a five states: Alabama, Georgi Read Full Story
Baristanet.com: Glen Ridge Schools Team With ShopRite in Eco Shopping Bag Fundraiser
2010-04-28 : Glen Ridge schools and ShopRite of Brookdale are joining hands to make the world a better place in two ways - by promoting environmental awareness and helping schools raise funds for much-needed supplies. Barista Kids. Read the Full Story [PDF]
StyleBakery.com's Daily Scoop
2010-04-22 : Meet the most extraordinary reusable grocery bags yet. This clever set of four recyclable totes is conveniently packaged inside one convenient bag. Style Bakery [Web]
Carolina Live, News Channel 13: Schools, Piggly Wiggly and MY ECO celebrate Earth Day
2010-04-15 : Area schools, Piggly Wiggly stores and MY ECO kicked off the Reuse Challenge on Thursday.
The goal of the Reuse Challenge is to establish a partnership between local schools and grocers to create sustainable reuse behavior change throughout the area. Read Full Story
Courtney Willis Blog
2010-04-10 : Read Courtney's Blog posting on the MY ECO Shopping Bag System. Visit Web Page [Web]
Read Charlie: Brown is the New Green
2010-03-30 : Were you sitting in the dark at 8:30pm last Saturday? Probably not. Because the global “Earth Hour,” while a great symbolic representation of environmental consciousness, is not really going to make a big difference. So what will? Kristen Brown’s MY ECO shopping bag system may very well be the Read the full story [PDF]
The Green Connoisseur: My Eco Bag – The Shopping Solution for Reducing and Reusing
2009-12-26 : Reusable shopping bags are a must have for every eco-savvy consumer, but a normal family grocery trip isn’t always easy with typical reusable totes. Kristen Brown, founder of Green Waste Solutions, has created the answer – a convenient, easy to store system of 4 versatile shopping bags.
My Ec Read Full Story
NewJersey.com: My Eco Bag System chooses Brookdale Shop-Rite for product test marketing
2009-12-24 : "My Eco Bag System," a convenient "four shopping bags in one" storage tote reusable bag system, is test-marketing its product at Brookdale Shop-Rite, 1409 Broad St., Bloomfield this month. NorthJersey.com [Web]
South Carolina Women Magazine: Living Green.
2009-12-01 : MY ECO Bagging System, a convenient four shopping bags in one storage tote reusable bag system will be on the shelves in Piggly Wiggly grocery stores throughout South Carolina after a successful local test run in Pawleys Island. S.C. South Caroline Women Magazine [PDF]
Plastic or Paper? Neither
We’ve all heard of the plastic menace. Plastic bags litter streets, trees, and streams. They suffocate wildlife. They can take over 1,000 years to decompose. And we’re only consuming and throwing away more of them every year...
climateprogress.org - Read more
Are Plastic Grocery Bags Sacking the Environment?
The "paper or plastic" conundrum that vexed earnest shoppers throughout the 1980s and 90s is largely moot today. Most grocery store baggers don't bother to ask anymore. They drop the bananas in one plastic bag as they reach for another to hold the six-pack of soda. The pasta sauce and noodles will get one too, as will the dish soap...
National Geographic - Read more
Paper or Plastic? A New Look at the Bag Scourge
When plastic grocery bags were introduced some 30 years ago, they were touted as light, long-lasting and cheap. They caught on so well that hundreds of billions are dispensed each year, creating a modern menace that often winds up nestled in trees, stuck in sewers and drifting in oceans...
Wall Street Journal - Read more
San Francisco Plastic Bag Ban Interests Other Cities
In San Francisco, the age-old question "Paper or plastic?" was answered one year ago this week. The city banned hard-to-recycle plastic bags in grocery stores, and so far, that translates into 5 million fewer plastic bags every month. Now, other cities are considering similar bans, and companies are developing alternatives to disposable bags...
NPR - Read more
Hey Mr. Green
Hey Mr. Green, In six years, my minister has never once spoken of man's responsibility to care for God's Creation. When I asked him about this, he said he spends his time on more important issues, such as feeding the poor. What should I do? — Sam in Georgia...
Sierra Club - Read more
Mass Audubon supports Reusable Bag Day
LINCOLN, Mass.- Mass Audubon, The Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), the Massachusetts Legislature and the Massachusetts Food Association are pleased to announce that November 14, 2007 will officially be "Reusable Bag Day" across the Commonwealth following a formal proclamation by Governor Deval Patrick and a Legislative Resolution by the House and Senate...
Mass Audubon - Read more
Celebrating Earth Day Where You Live – 2009
The following links may provide helpful information for opportunities to celebrate Earth Day in and around your community. These events range from family-friendly to volunteer cleanup opportunities that may be more physically strenuous...
EPA - Read more
The Past, Present and Future of Recycling
In 1973, not a single curbside recycling program existed in the United States. Today, there are more than 8,000 in operation throughout the country. The United States now recycles one third of its municipal waste -- trash we generate in our homes, schools and non-industrial businesses -- compared to just 6 percent in 1960. But despite the growing popularity of recycling, it's being outpaced by the volume of garbage we produce...
NRDC - Read more
Plastic Bags - World Report
2007 marks the plastic shopping bag's 30th anniversary. Since their introduction trillions of plastic bags have been used and discarded globally. They don’t break down easily, taking up to 1,000 years which means these ‘convenient’ carry bags are accumulating in the environment at a staggering rate...
Cleanup.org - Read more (PDF)
The Paper vs. Plastic Conundrum
Climate change is real and plastic bags help cause it. While policymakers at the federal level waffle about what to do about it, we can make a big difference at the local level. As with all good ideas, banning plastic bags has generated controversy, even among environmentalists. Controversy keeps activists on their toes and forces them to answer important questions. It can also produce propaganda that confuses the issue and blurs the facts. There are a lot of valid questions as well as propaganda about plastic bags recently that require clarification...
DC Audubon Scociety - Read more
Taking Action for Forests
Forest issues affect us all in some way. Because of that, there are many ways that each of us can help in solving the problem. Actions we take can range from simple consumer choices to a more active role in community decision making to more responsible activities at the workplace. Read onfor a list of 21 actions and choices that you can take personally to help...
DC Audubon Scociety - Read more (PDF)
Plastic Bag Fact Sheet
Why are plastic bags an environmental problem? Plastic bags are a problem in our environment for a number of reasons. Around 80 million plastic shopping bags end up as litter in our environment each year. It takes plastic bags up to 1,000 years to break down and, because they are lightweight and moisture resistant, they can travel long distances and cause environmental problems in many places...
Sustainability Victoria - Read more (PDF)
Whole Foods Chain to Stop Use of Plastic Bags
The Whole Foods Market chain said Tuesday that it would stop offering plastic grocery bags, giving customers instead a choice between recycled paper or reusable bags. The chainwide ban on plastic bags will take effect by April 22, which is Earth Day...
NY Times - Read more
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