By Katrina on August 27th, 2009

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots – most people probably know this already. Read more…
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Keywords: cancer, carcinogen, carrots, chlorine, food
By Leanne on July 1st, 2009

So it is summer time, and I am sure that many people love to spend weekends or even their evenings after work swimming to cool off. Unfortunately for me, that isn’t an easy thing to do being that I am not one of the fortunate ones to own a pool. But, for those of you that do, I found some easy ways to go green on Earth911.
1. Got Salt?
Switching to salt water instead of chlorine water pools can help save on money and maintenance. Since you won’t be using the chemicals it is also more gentle on you skin and helps to keep the pool algae-free. Read more…
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Keywords: chlorine, pool, pool maintainence, pool pumps, salt water, solar pool cover, swimming, water leaks