Want to bring this ordinance to your town? Use this model as a starting point for conversations with your mayor, town council, planning board, and neighbors.
In this issue: A Dollar Saved is a Dollar Earned — Skip the Stuff | Making Polluters Pay for Climate Damages | ReThink Disposable — Stopping Single-use Plastics and Toxics | Kids Clean Air Zone Campaign Launched | Protecting NJ from Data Center Harms | Rethink Disposable in Our National Parks | Legislative Updates: PFAS, Toxics, and Microplastics | Welcome Cass | National Updates
Online ordering is convenient, but shipping can take a grave toll on our health and our environment. Find out more below about what you can do to lessen these impacts and make our communities safer and healthier!
Microplastics never biodegrade. They are found worldwide—in rain, snow, soil, food, and throughout the human body. Microplastics are plastic particles smaller than 5 millimeters (nanoplastics are even smaller). Join us in taking action to reduce microplastics and protect public health and our water!
New Jersey Municipal Resolution to oppose the proposed "Climate Superfund Act" which would impose liability on large fossil fuel companies for certain climate change related damages they caused instead of imposing all those costs on New Jersey taxpayers.