Eco friendly solutions in St Maarten / Sint Martin
Have you ever thought about what you throw out every day? What makes up the bulk (by weight) of our trash? Food waste? Plastic? Glass? Perhaps by paying careful attention to a week’s worth of trash, we can better understand where we can make improvements in our lives. Continue reading “A Week’s Worth of Trash”
There are not many Sint Maarten Recycling locations, but we will let you know about them as they become available!
Art Craft Cafe and Wastefactory are located between Coffee Lounge and Diamond Casino on Frontstreet. They collect clean & dry #2 HDPE bottles and all bottle caps, with more recycling options coming soon. Continue reading “Saint Martin & Sint Maarten Recycling Locations”
Single use plastic is polluting our landfill, lungs, and ocean. Ideally, we will move away from plastics as reusable and compostable alternatives become more widely available. However, we must recycle the plastic that we already use. Plastic recycling is becoming more widely available, but one of the greatest challenges is the lack of information about what is actually recyclable at local facilities. Less than 10% of plastic is recycled in the USA. If St Maarten wants to do better, we are all going to have to learn a bit about plastic and what can be recycled locally.
Plastic is divided into 7 categories: PET, HDPE, PVC, LDPE, PP, PS, and ‘Other’.
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Plastic has changed the world. Read our Tips for Choosing and Using Less Single Use Plastic to see how you can reduce your environmental impact today!
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As part of #plasticfreeJuly we’ve been looking in detail at the environmental impact of the food we buy. Reducing meat, dairy, and processed foods is a great way to reduce plastic consumption (and your carbon footprint) but not all fruit and veggies are available everywhere without excess single use plastic packaging. Berries are renowned for their antioxidants but their fragile nature makes them an expensive treat financially and environmentally. Fresh vs frozen berries and the environment: Could frozen produce be a better choice? Continue reading “Fresh vs Frozen Berries: Which are Better for the Environment?”
Have you ever heard of a plastic attack? Also known as a shop and drop, it is a demonstration where people protest against excessive supermarket plastic packaging by buying their products and leaving all the packaging behind. They are taking the world by storm, from Ireland to the Netherlands.
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a handy catch phrase that is almost universally known. Teaching it begins in childhood – both at school and at home. However, it leaves out a few more important R’s – Namely Refuse, Re-purpose, and Rot.
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One of the areas we can make the biggest zero waste difference is in our bathrooms. On top of helping the environment, zero waste bathrooms can also save us money. A plastic free bathroom is getting easier and easier, thanks to the increasing global awareness over the fate of much of our plastic waste. Plastic is virtually forever. It doesn’t disappear, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. It is in our bodies, our food, our water, and our oceans.
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