Alternatives to plastics

SIGG, a Swiss company, has been producing its aluminum water bottles for a hundred years, but a great many Americans haven’t a clue about the company or its products. The growing desire for quality, reusable bottles combined with the relatively new worries about leachate from plastic bottles is changing that. If you haven’t yet tapped into “The Original Swiss Bottle,” here’s  your introduction. Made of aluminum, SIGG bottles are just about as light as their...
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Guess what? Your body is full of toxic waste.

Body burden. Toxic trespass. Chemical contamination. What does it all mean?Each of these phrases refers to the load of synthetic chemicals that each human being on this planet carries. Yes, even you. Not even people who practice subsistence fishing in remote Alaskan villages escape the chemical background noise of the industrial age.In fact, those people can be more heavily contaminated with mercury, arsenic, lead, PBDEs and other chemicals than people living in a city because...
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