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What to do with your Halloween pumpkins? Compost!
With autumn in full swing and Halloween behind us, it’s the perfect time to give your pumpkins a second life through pumpkin composting!
Each year, Americans toss more than a billion pounds of pumpkins into the trash, but composting them keeps organic waste out of landfills and incinerators while creating nutrient-rich soil for our communities.
Howard County, MD, makes it easy to take part through the Harvest Heap program:
Drop off pumpkins at Alpha Ridge Landfill or Robinson Nature Center. Howard County residents participating in the Feed the Green Bin food scrap collection program can setTaking on Toxics, State by State: Rhode Island Leads the Way
Many of the environmental laws and protections that we now take for granted originated at the state level. This is the guiding ethos of the annual Safer States conference.
Dying for Work: Ban Methylene Chloride!
What is your vision of a dream job? One in which you can come home from the job safe every day? Well, Clean Water Action allies at The Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health (MassCOSH) fight for that vision every day for all of us. Clean Water has worked closely with the MASSCOSH team for many years to advance safe chemicals policies and innovations. We hope to prevent harm to worker health rather than mourne for workers who lose their lives on the job from contact with dangerous chemicals.
MASSCOSH has created a quilt (pictured above) to commemorate the losses of
We Just Want To Say Thank You
Clean Water members and activists were one of the bright spots of 2017. Throughout the year member and activists like you sent messages, mailed letters, signed postcards, and made phone calls. You attended rallies and town hall events. You got involved and you spoke loud and clear.
Holding TJX accountable for their failing score
Last Tuesday, November 14th, Clean Water Action joined Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families in releasing the second annual Retailer Report Card. This report grades popular retail chains on how they address the problem of toxic chemicals, that can pose serious health threats, in the products they sell. In Massachusetts, we focused our attention on the TJX Company, since they are headquartered here in Framingham. The creator of T.J.Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, and others, TJX is the leading off-price retailer of apparel and home fashions, with over 3,800 stores worldwide. They scored an F on this