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American Trade Products’ (ATP) new Earth Plastic is recyclable, biodegradable, and made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic. At the moment, it looks like they’re focusing on painting supplies, like paint tray liners and buckets, but they’re planning expand into home storage and pet supply products. I have to admit, their claims make this stuff sound [...]
Michigan based Meijer and ecostoreusa have joined forces to create five ecostore brand natural cleaning products that will be sold exclusively at Meijer stores. Meijer operates 185 stores in five states with their corporate offices in Grand Rapids, MI. Ecostore USA has it’s US office in West Bloomfield, MI. The pairing is a perfect match [...]
Dr. Ian Player knows Lake St. Lucia, located in South Africa’s Wetlands Park, intimately. He’s dedicated 60 years of his life to saving it. In his youth, Dr. Player fished the lake. By 1970, he would be wrestling and airlifting 50 large crocodiles to save them from salinity of the lake’s waters. Here is Dr. [...]
Among Cairn terriers, the best-known celebrity is “Toto” from the Wizard of Oz. Now she might have some competition, as a Cairn terrier named Ridley is gaining fame for helping to save his namesake, the critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtle. Ridley helps find the nests of the sea turtles in Texas along Padre Island [...]
