We're on a mission to create a world without waste!
Clean Water Action is working to reduce single-use waste due to its adverse impacts on our health, from creation to disposal.
We have successfully banned single-use plastic bags and polystyrene in the Garden State. We're also working with local businesses, schools and communities to ReThink Disposable.
But more work must be done to protect our air, land and water from the excessive waste stream going to landfills and incinerators and harming our water and communities.
Join us in taking action and fighting for policies that keep our waterways, streets, and oceans trash-free.
Clean Water Action’s ReThink Disposable program is helping these facilities convert to reusables by providing expertise in alternative practices and purchasing reusables.
New Jersey needs a Deposit Return System (DRS) to save energy, prevent litter, keep recyclable materials out of our landfills and incinerators, and save taxpayers money in waste management.
In this issue: Launch of NJ Warehouse Proximity Report and Introduction of Warehouse and Port Pollution Reduction Act | Working to Eliminate Single-Use Plastics in New Jersey | Finding and Fact-Checking False Energy Solutions | Save The Date: Autumn Toast and Dodge Poetry Festival | National Updates
In this issue: Urge Your Elected Officials to Protect ALL of Our Water | 2023 Endorsements a Success | Meet Our New Environmental Justice Organizer: X Braithwaite | Empowering Communities: Kim Gaddy Receives Environmental Justice Award at NAACP Gala | Using People Power to Make the Changes We Seek | Skip The Stuff
It is estimated that 40 billion individual single-use plastic utensils are discarded every year in the United States. Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable program is working to stop plastic trash advocating for a "Skip the Stuff" bill in New Jersey!