Things Which I have Never Thought Of Before..

Toothbrushes

Do you like to brush your teeth? Are you a keen brusher? For a keen brusher, do you follow your dentist advise to change your toothbrush EVERY 3 months? Well, I have.

The landfill sites are now having problem where there are too many toothbrushes there. As we all know, they are made from plastic so they can't decompose. So guess what manufacturers are doing to tackle this problem?

When consumers buy these toothbrushes, they will get a postage paid envelope to send the brushes back to their manufacturer when they are not in use anymore. They don't have these in Malaysia though. Or you can just dump it in the recycling bin. We can do this though. Anyway returned tooth brushes will then likely be reborn again as raw material for a picnic table, deck, boardwalk or other durable long-lasting product.

They also have created brushes with replaceble heads.

Non plastic tooth brushes are also in the market. They are made from 'cellulose derived from sustainable yield forest.'

You can also make bracelet out of your tooth brush taught by guru Carol Duvali. I am serious. Not joking.


Harry Potter Book 7!!!

I never knew Harry Potter could be involved in green issues!!! He greens!!

Actually this was what happened:
During the release of HP6, publisher Scholastic is said that didn't use enough recycle paper. So Greenpeace ( an international environmental organisation ) urged consumers to boycott Scholastic and to purchase the novel from Raincoast Books, J.K. Rowling’s Canadian publisher, which printed the Canadian edition of the book on recycled paper.

At the time, Greenpeace said that Scholastic could have saved 217,475 mature trees by printing the 10.8 million copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince on recycled paper. But of course it didn't work on HP crazy fans. A book is just a book.

Anyway Scholastic publisher obviously took the environmental concerns to heart and worked with the Rainforest Alliance.

Details of Scholastic’s environmental commitment for the new Harry Potter book include:
At least 65 percent of the 16,700 tons of paper used for the first printing will be FSC-certified, which means the paper comes from forests that are managed in a socially and environmentally responsible way.
Totaling nearly 22 million pounds, this is the largest purchase of FSC-certified paper ever to be used in a single book printing.
All of the paper used in the printing will contain at least 30 percent post-consumer waste fiber, with much of that verified by FSC standards as well.
A deluxe edition of the new book, with a first printing of 100,000, will be printed on paper that contains 100 percent post-consumer waste fiber.

To cut things short, many trees have been saved. HP7 is friendly to the environment.