"Ban the Bottle"—It's a Great Campaign that Needs Us to Help End a Rip-Off and Protect the Planet and Our Water

“Ban the Bottle!” It’s an action to add to your choices for Earth if you haven’t already. And BE SURE TO READ THE COMPELLING INFOGRAPHIC FEATURED IN THIS BLOG! You’ll want to share it with others. How’d it come to OEP? Molly Connell at Trade Machines, a business that connects used machines with new buyers, contacted the OneEarth Project with it. I liked it a lot. So I asked her some questions:

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Richard Anthony’s Answers to 5 Questions Retrain Us for Zero Waste Living

A few years ago I heard Richard Anthony speak at a seminar. It was not difficult to recognize quickly his knowledge about reducing waste to zero, and his passionate commitment to making it happen. Richard heads Richard Anthony Associates, San Diego, where the goal is “to design and produce zero waste programs that create jobs from discards” www.richardanthonyassociates.com/index.html. Richard is in the thick of retraining societies, businesses—all of us—moving us from a disposable, MultiEarth way of thinking to loving the one planet we have so much that practicing zero waste is the socially acceptable thing to do. He is part of the Zero Waste International Alliance.

In this blog interview, Richard tells us how we can move to being zero wasters and advocate for the policies that help get our world there. His answers are a great follow through on this past Earth Day (April 22, 2017)!

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