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Human Rights Costs must not be Tolerated in Transitioning to a Clean Energy future
Before Women’s History Month concludes, I think it’s extremely important to shed light on a very important issue: the human rights violations that the people, particularly women, of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are currently enduring amid the global push for creating a zero-emission future.
Clean Water on the Move - March 2024
Welcome to Clean Water on the Move, your monthly update from Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund in New Jersey!
Skip the Stuff! Borough of Garwood Passes a New Ordinance to Reduce Cutlery and Condiment Pollution
On March 21 2024, the Borough of Garwood, New Jersey joined the growing number of towns to Skip the Stuff to help reduce unwanted single-use disposables, mostly plastics, from going into the waste stream.
Testimony Opposing "Chemical Recycling" A5803
Statement by Maura Toomey, Zero Waste Organizer for Clean Water Action before the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee Opposing A5803 June 14, 2021 Thank you for the opportunity to testify on this bill. Clean Water Action strongly opposes A5803, which would exempt plastic material processed at advanced plastic processing facilities from solid waste and recycling regulations, and urges the bill’s sponsor Assemblyman McKeon to pull this bill. This is an attempt to create a market for “advanced recycling”, also known as “chemical recycling”, gasification, or pyrolysis. These terms refer
ReThink Disposable Blog Series Part III: Next Steps for Statewide Zero Waste Policies
New Jersey’s ban on single-use carryout bags and polystyrene foam containers will go into effect one year from now, or May 2022! This victory was the result of the groundswell of concern over the damage being caused to our environment by waste and single-use plastics. This is only the beginning of the paradigm shift toward zero waste happening in New Jersey, across the U.S., and around the world. In the next part of our ReThink Disposable Blog Series, we will take a look at state policies in the works that will move us ever closer toward a zero waste future.
