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Keep Those Antibiotics Effective, Maryland!

In 2017, after years of work in coalition and thousands of grassroots comments from Marylanders like you, Maryland became the second state in the nation to pass a law limiting the use of antibiotics being fed to healthy animals.

This was a critical step in safeguarding medically-important antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is growing worldwide, and some of that resistance is attributed to the widespread use of low-dosage, medically-important antibiotics being fed continuously to healthy farm animals. Many producers have gotten behind no longer feeding their healthy animals antibiotics

Environmental Justice at the MA State House

Photo: Maria Belen Power - Chelsea GreenRoots (center), Andrea Nyamekye - Neighbor to Neighbor (left), Madeleine Scammell - BUSPH (right) testify at environmental justice hearing

Just last week at the Massachusetts State House, the Committee on Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture held a hearing for a new environmental justice bill. This bill aims to increase support for environmental justice communities as defined in former Governor Deval Patrick’s 2014 executive order and the EJ policy that was originally issued way back in 2002 and updated in 2017. The Executive Order lays out a

Greenpeace Recommends ReThink Disposable To"Reduce Your Plastic Footprint"

Greenpeace's new "Sea of Distress" report compares food service companies on "whether they are helping or harming the oceans and workers," and tips a big ol' hat to Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable program as a way for businesses to take action, save money and help the environment at the same time.

The report recommends that food service businesses consult with programs like ReThink Disposable to reduce their plastic footprint and save money. You can read the whole thing here.

"Food service companies aren't household names," the report says. But they "buy, transport, cook, and serve

ReThinking Institutions: Stopping Waste and Pollution at the Source

One of the toughest challenges working in the environmental movement is it can be difficult to point to a specific and measurable impact, in the same way that polluters can kid themselves they’re doing well, with their up-ticking sales and profit graphs.

It takes all of us working together, but measuring impact is where ReThink Disposable is different. We’re starting to put up some serious and significant numbers with our campaign to save businesses thousands of dollars by reducing their use of single-use disposable packaging that is ubiquitous in today’s food service industry. And we’re proud

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