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Clean Water Action, Middletown Public Schools Forming Partnership to Fight Waste
Clean Water Action and Middletown Public Schools are unveiling their partnership to fight waste and plastic pollution by phasing out disposable dining ware in school cafeterias district-wide.
Rethink Disposable Is Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by Bringing Reusable Foodware to the table at five Community Restaurants in the Fruitvale
Clean Water Fund’s ReThink Disposable program, working with grant funding from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and The Ocean Foundation, has worked with five community restaurants in Fruitvale to reduce single use plastic waste and save money by converting their dine-in foodware to reusable.
Paper or Plastic? Why the Answer Should be “Neither”
The answer on whether to choose paper or plastic is neither. The best environmentally friendly solution is to avoid single-use items altogether in favor of reusables.
Every Voice Counts
The ReThink Disposable team has been hard at work encouraging businesses to reduce their use of plastic straws. One of our greatest lessons learned these past few months is that every voice counts. This Spring, not only did we speak with business owners, we partnered up with local fifth grade students eager to spread the word to help save marine life. The collaboration started when 5 th grade teacher Drury Thorpe read an article in her local paper about ReThink Disposable’s work in her town. While she was reading she realized that the director of ReThink Disposable in Montclair, Maura Toomey
No Plastic Straws - New Jersey Restaurants Help Curb Plastic Pollution
Governments and municipalities all over the world are proposing bans on single-use plastic straws, from the U.K. to Monmouth Beach, New Jersey! Here in New Jersey, ReThink Disposable is excited to highlight restaurants who have changed their own policies on serving plastic straws in order to address the issues of plastic pollution in our oceans. Two such restaurants are The Shannon Rose Pub and Spuntino Wine Bar & Italian Tapas in North Jersey which have both stopped serving straws to customers, giving them out only when requested. Regan DeBenedetto, the Director of Operations at the
