by Heather Vaughan | Oct 16, 2019 | Water & Health, Water & Safety, Water & the Planet
Why do we find so much plastic in tap and bottled water? Plastic doesn’t readily biodegrade- it only disintegrates into smaller and smaller pieces, releasing chemicals at each step of the way to your tap and bottled water. Plastic is Forever “Roughly two-thirds of all...
by Heather Vaughan | Sep 30, 2019 | Water & Health, Water & the Planet
This week’s installment in our Plastic Series is on food and beverage packaging. Plastic packaging leads directly to human consumption of microplastics and associated chemicals in our day to day lives. Microplastics in our food and water are getting a lot of...
by Heather Vaughan | Sep 12, 2019 | In the News, Water & the Planet
In Part 1, we unpacked how the materials used to make plastic (oil and natural gas) affect water sources. This week, we’ll continue our series with #NoSingleUsePlastic Part 2: Plastic Production. Plastic has its place and in many instances improves the quality...
by Heather Vaughan | Jul 10, 2019 | Water & the Planet
Plastic. It’s everywhere. The pervasiveness of plastic is so ubiquitous that a recent study has shown that humans ingest on average “the equivalent of a credit card’s worth of plastic every week.” How, and why are we ingesting so much plastic? The answer is long...
by Heather Vaughan | Jan 29, 2019 | Water & the Planet
Water is as ancient as the world itself. It is part of our earliest memories as a species, as a world. Water links us to the formation of the Earth. The water that flows within us could be the same water that our earliest ancestors had in their bodies, just as the air...
