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Black Women of the Freight & Goods Movement!

March 24, 2025 | By Tolani Taylor

There is no better time to learn about and most importantly acknowledge some amazing black women that have made significant contributions in America’s freight and goods movement industry!

43 Ways to Reduce Your Plastic Disposable Waste

May 24, 2018 | By Allie Molinaro

How do you reduce your plastic waste? Here is a list of ideas presented by ReThink Disposable to either get you started or expand upon your current low-plastic lifestyle. Some of these are obvious, while others are a bit more obscure. See how many you can check off the list!

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Yoga For Clean Water!

May 15, 2018 | By Jenny Vickers

This past weekend, Clean Water Action joined Younique Yoga, Asbury Park Bazaar, and The Anchor's Bend in hosting a Yoga Benefit for Clean Water!

Special thanks to all of the atteendees, as well as yoga instructor Rosanna Canale for dedicating her time for such a great cause!

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Activism & Inspiration at Clean Water Action's 32nd Annual Conference

May 7, 2018 | By Jenny Vickers

We are still reeling from our conference that happened last weekend, Saturday, April 28th at The Wardlaw+Hartridge School, in Edison. We enjoyed sharing the work we are doing to protect New Jersey’s environment and appreciated learning about the organizing people are doing to make a difference in their communities. Check out the conference photos here!

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Garbage Patch Kids: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

April 23, 2018 | By Allie Molinaro

If you have read the news recently, you have probably seen an article or two about a recent study of the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”. The articles report estimates of plastic pollution in the trillions, and swaths of plastic waste that are the size of countries.

Those numbers might make it feel