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Use eco-bags for shopping. The world uses about one trillion plastic bags a year. Buy homemade products. These will reach you without the use of much carbon emissions. Give gifts that can be used over and over.  That will not contribute to the wastes in the landfills. Don’t buy decorations with...

Reusable tin water tumblers or bottles have been helping minimize plastic pollution, but some of them could be slowly poisoning you. HARMLESS-LOOKING--The EcoWaste Coalition detected high levels of lead content in the surface coating of these refillable water tumblers. (Photo from the EcoWaste...

Imagine a reus able face mask that protects wearers and those around them from virus, and stays in place without frequent adjustment. Based on decades of experience with textile materials and filtration, researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have desi gned a new mask intended to...

Fine Guard’s self-disinfecting mask easily kills bacteria and viruses in the air. And it’s now available in the Philippines Almost overnight, masks have become a symbol of social responsibility. And it does make us feel safer, but any benefit of wearing a mask will be quickly negated if we lose...

SURIGAO DEL NORTE – Due to the difficulty of searching for cardboard pizza boxes in town caused by community quarantine, a restaurant in Siargao island found a sustainable solution by creating their own pizza containers through the help of local Tangbo weavers. The creation of the boxes Rio,...