These days with identity theft in full force, it is more important than ever to shred our personal un-needed documents. You know the ones: bank information, social security numbers, pay stubs, credit card statements, etc. The question is, what do you do with the shredded paper when your bin is full? Read more…
People (especially Americans) are shoe-crazy, among other things, i.e. Sex in the City, Diaries of a Shop-a-holic, etc… We go through so many shoes that statistically, stores import eight pairs for every man, woman and child in the country each year! Each year!!! And we throw them away before they’re even close to have “seen better days.” Compare that to the average in Mexico where it is three pairs of shoes per person, and even more unfortunate, are a large number of people that have none at all. None at all, while we have closets full of them! Read more…
A man named Bryan Brooks, a Baylor University researcher and professor, and his colleague Kevin Chambliss recently caught some fish in rivers where wastewater treatment plants release treated sewage in Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Philadelphia and Orlando. They also tested fish from New Mexico’s Gila River Wilderness Area, which is isolated from human sources of pollution.
The results were at the 5 U.S sites the fish had trace concentrations of seven drugs and two soap scent chemicals in their livers. Read more…
