Plastic Numbers; What Do They Mean?

Here's a little chart I created to help explain what the numbers on certain plastics stand for. (Click to enlarge)

Pictures found through google images

I hope you find this helpful!

Overpopulation Cartoon

By BlueMenpachi

You might have to zoom in (ctrl +) in order to find all the themes.

STYROFOAM: What is it? How is it made? Why is it bad? What can you do to help?

Good Morning Readers!

So today's post is on STYROFOAM!

4 questions will be answered throughout this post:

1) What is styrofoam?

2) How is it made?

3) Why is it bad?

4) What can you do to help? 

Maui's 3 Can Plan

Yeah Maui County!

FINALLY a recycling program is happening!

Starting August 17, 2012, neighborhoods in South Maui will be a part of Phase 1 Curbside Recycling!

We have been issued two new trash cans. A Blue one and a Green one, where select items acceptable for recycling, will be collected by Maui’s Oplala Pickers! (aka, Garbage Men)

The Brown Cart is for rubbish only.

The Blue Cart is used for Mixed Recyclables. Items allowed are:

• ·         Corrugated cardboard
• ·         Boxboard (ex; cereal boxes, egg cartons)
• ·         Juice cartons (ex; Milk cartons, pog cartons etc)
• ·         Paper bags
• ·         Newspaper (but no phone books)
• ·         Junk mail and envelopes
• ·         Magazines
• ·         Office Paper
• ·         #1 Plastic bottles (ketchup, shoyu and soda bottles)
• ·         #2 Plastic bottles (pog jugs, laundry soap jugs, medicine bottles etc)
• ·         #1 and #2 Containers (plastic bento containers, jamba juice cups, strawberry and tofu containers)
• ·         Dairy Tubs and Lids (sour cream containers, poi containers)
• ·         Beverage Cans (regular Hi5 aluminum cans)
• ·         Food cans (ex; spam, pineapple, dog food cans)
• ·         Aluminum Foil and Trays

However, NO METAL and NO GLASS items are allowed to be recycled for they contaminate the other materials. (Glass shards and rust I suppose)

No PLASTIC BAGS are allowed in this cart either and all beverage and food residue must be rinsed out.

The Green Cart is used for Greenwaste. Item allowed are:

Stumbleupon.com for Creative Recycling Ideas~

I just recently joined this site called stumbleupon.com in hopes that it could help broaden my view of the internet. When you join the site, it comes to a page where you can click on things that interest you. Dance, Art, Games, Music, Health. There's a bunch more, so I'm going to name them all.
I clicked on the things that interested me, then clicked the stumble button at the top left and commenced my stumbling!
I can't remember exactly what the first page was that I stumbled upon, but I remember seeing an EPIC treehouse, tried out this one game where you had to type to shoot your enemies, came across some WICKED life sketches. Stumbleupon.com really has a LOT to stumble upon!
Afterward, my blogger brain kicked in, so I decided to specify my search and I typed in "recycling" in the search bar.
Let's just say, this was a BRILLIANT IDEA. xD
I came across so many different ways to recycle plastic bottles, or tin cans.
I snipped a few pictures to add:

~Cereal Box Nostalgia~

Remember when you were a little kid, and whenever you eat cereal, you would try to read everything on the box? I was so happy I did that this morning. I was eating Honeycomb (my favorite cereal) and I noticed this on the box:

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! Step Two: REUSE

Continuing on from the 3 R’s post
These are my examples on how to perform them to help protect the environment.

The second R is Reuse:

1.)You can reuse plastic and glass bottles many times over.
Bottled water is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. Water is available through your tap! The only thing you buy when you buy bottled water is… lower quality water and the plastic.

Reduce, Reuse and Recycle! Step One: REDUCE

{{This blog post will be separated into 3 different blogs}}
The 3 R's to help protect the environment.
Here are some ways I've thought of and have even used to help perform the 3 R's.

I had to limit the 3 R's to only 3 examples each. My list i made was way too long and I didn't want readers to get bored sifting thru all my examples. If you'd like the full list I created, drop me an email or leave a comment.

First R is Reduce:

Plastic Poison List

Everyday, people use something plastic. It could be disposable or even a long term use of that particular plastic. But when you're done, you'll probably end up throwing it away right?
Here are some of the things I've thought about that people use that end up in the trash, that goes to the landfill and in some way or another, the ocean:

Pollution Awareness for Maui: Ocean Acidification and Poisonous Plastics

Earlier this morning in my marine biology class, our presentations for our semester projects were due. I chose to do my presentation on Pollution Awareness.
Basically, a lot of people really are NOT fully aware of how every single day they are polluting the Earth and Oceans in some way.
I started my presentation with Ocean Acidification. Ocean acidification is when there is too much CO2 being released into out atmosphere and when our atmosphere touches the ocean (yes, it literally touches the ocean) it mixes with the water and basically makes an acid.