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Find Your New Favorite Place for Date Night!
ReThink Disposable is excited to announce the launch of our Participant Map.
Testimony on SB56: Maryland's Wasted Food Reduction & Diversion Fund
Today, we're in front of the Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee to testify in support of SB56, legislation that will create a dedicated funding stream for reducing food waste, developing composting infrastructure, and supporting the School Waste Reduction and Composting Grant Program!
The fight for a foam-free Baltimore
This week, a bill to ban styrofoam food packages was approved by Baltimore City's Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. Thanks to incredible organizing by the student-led group Baltimore Beyond Plastic, who brought hundreds of elementary, middle, and high school students to rally and testify in support of the bill, it received unanimous committee support. Below are the comments we submitted on behalf of this bill. Kudos to the kids who made it possible!
DATE: February 5, 2018 TO: Judiciary and Legislative Investigations Committee FROM: Clean Water Action POSITION: Support RE: Council Bill 17
Starbucks and Our Plastic Pollution Problem
The globe is covered in plastic waste. The "to-go" coffee culture is a big part of this problem. Take Starbucks, for example. Starbucks uses more than 8,000 paper cups a minute, which adds up to more than four billion a year.
Factsheet - Bag the Plastic Bag Ban in Minnesota!
Minnesota plastic bag recycling is estimated to be less than 10%. Clean Water Action is working to remove the plastic bag ban preemption in Minnesota statute, which will return local control around this issue back to where it belongs — with each city and town in Minnesota.