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| Pepsi Admits Aquafina Comes From Tap Water
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| posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007
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It's a great marketing gimmick: A bottle of water with a clean, blue label showing images of snow-capped mountains and the claim, "Pure water, perfect taste." That's the image created by Pepsico's Aquafina brand of water, and many consumers leap to the incorrect conclusion that Aquafina is sourced from mountain spring water.
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| Chemical In Plastic Prompts Scientists' Warning
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| posted on Sunday, August 05, 2007
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In an unusual effort targeting a single chemical, several dozen
scientists on Thursday issued a strongly worded statement warning that
an estrogenlike compound in plastic is likely to be causing an array of
serious reproductive disorders in people.
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| Our Oceans Are Turning Into Plastic...Are We?
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| posted on Monday, June 18, 2007
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That polystyrene cup you saw floating in the creek, if it doesn’t get
picked up and specifically taken to a landfill, will eventually be
washed out to sea. Once there, it will have plenty of places to go: The
North Pacific gyre is only one of five such high-pressure zones in the
oceans. There are similar areas in the South Pacific, the North and
South Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean. Each of these gyres has its own
version of the Garbage Patch, as plastic gathers in the currents.
Together, these areas cover 40 percent of the sea. “That corresponds to
a quarter of the earth’s surface,” Moore says. “So 25 percent of our
planet is a toilet that never flushes.”
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| Wal-Mart To Cut Mercury In CFL Bulbs
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| posted on Saturday, May 12, 2007
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Wal-Mart announced Thursday that its suppliers of compact fluorescent
light bulbs have agreed to dramatically reduce the amount of mercury in
the energy-saving bulbs.
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| New Fears Over Additives In Children's Food
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| posted on Thursday, May 10, 2007
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Food safety experts have advised parents to eliminate a series of
additives from their children’s diet while they await the publication
of a new study that is understood to link these ingredients to
behaviour problems in youngsters.
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| New CFL Light Bulbs Are Toxic
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| posted on Friday, April 20, 2007
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With everyone from Al Gore to Wal-Mart to the Environmental Protection
Agency promoting CFLs as the greatest thing since, well, the light
bulb, consumers have been left in the dark about a problem they will
all face eventually -- how to get rid of the darn things when they burn
out or, worse yet, break.
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