Rainforest Alliance When you're looking at a food label, whether it's to understand the directions of how to cook it, or checking the ingredients list or the expiry date, but have you come [...]

14 billion single-use cups of coffee is consumed in Canada or 1.5 billion each province, and on a personal level of 250 cups per person per year. The reason why the cups don't get [...]

Contact your MPP to address the plastic crisis that we are facing, and ask them about what their actions and plans are in minimizing plastic waste. You can also inquire about potential implementations or [...]

If you flip your plastic container upside down, there is a number with the typical recycling symbol. These numbers were established from 1988 from the Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) that ranges from [...]

Plastics Campaign from Organizations Here is a list of non-profit, non-governmental organizations, some being international that promote and advocate a plastic campaign. These websites are factual, and offers free educational toolkits on everything [...]

Plastic is everywhere. Not only are microplastics found in oceans, but it's closer to our homes than we think. There is an estimated 22 million pounds of plastic waste found in our Great Lakes, [...]

Greenpeace conducted a plastic audit on World Clean Up day on September 2018 in Canadian shorelines such as Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax and Montreal as part of their international Break Free from Plastic campaign. Cumulatively, [...]

Sustainable Groceries Co-ops are local grocery stores that are consumer-owned that serve environmental, social and economic benefits, unlike conventional chain grocery stores that are privately or investor owned. Co-ops typically carry fresh, organic [...]

Plastic is produced from natural gas and feedstocks that is derived from crude oil refining. The feedstocks or petrochemical crackers is a type of oil that consists of large carbon-containing compounds such as alkanes. [...]