Posted by Snow in The Green Pages are in fact printed on green paper. This every day shopping guide could probably be updated, but no doubt there is an online version which can move faster than the speed of a conventional printing press. Petrochemicals and hydrocarbons are where this books starts out.
The Green Pages is a bracing read. This is a very densely packed source book regarding toxic substances, household materials, botnical organic and naturally produced resources and potential poisons for thr home and body.
Used a primer, the Green pages assists in finding over 900 products that are green approved can be a crash course is the reality of sustainable living.
This book is really a sourcebook for products and retailers catering to environmentally safe green consumer products. How long do plastic grcoery bags need to break down in landfills? How long does a battery need to digest from the intestine of an infant?
There is some serios information home owners and garage dwellers should know. The home workshop hobbyist would be well advised to see what they don’t know in this book. Essays on photodegradation and plasticiers also detail environmental processes around us everyday.
A garage clean out manual if there ever was one, there is even a glossary of harmful chemical substances in the back of the book with a listing of biological symptoms/effects. Eutrophication is a process by which algae decompsoes and suffocates plant life, fish life, animal and vegetable life in ponds and ground waters.
Along with the usual packaging & pesticides warnings, the listings efature dynamics of sustainability whichmake attractive focal points for informed consumer choice. Is the item biodegradeable? Is it phosphate free? Is it dye free, concentrated, or free from arsenic treatment?
Many consumers might be unpleasantly surprised finding out just how much chemical and substance processing everyday home and office consumer products undergo.
These are grounding questions that quickly bring any dilettante into reality about green living and toxic damage to the environment.
There are a lot of gerat facts in this book, like how it takes batterie acod a long long time to proof from a landfill area soil contamination.
The Green Pages c. 1999
The Bennett Information Group
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