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ReThink Disposable Collaborates with Schools to Bring Reuse to our Youth
K-12 students spend half their year in school, with up to 60% of students choosing school-provided lunch options. Pre-K and daycare kids are in these educational settings year-round. Unfortunately, many schools serve meals on disposable cafeteria foodware such as polystyrene foam trays and plastic utensils.
Why Plastic Free July?
Each year we collaborate with our reuse partners to highlight our work reducing single use plastic foodware from our waste streams. Why? Well, we know that 50% of all plastic ever produced has been manufactured since 2000. We also know that plastic contains forever chemicals that are known to cause health problems in humans.
Clean Water Waves | In The News, May 2023
Our work to protect clean water across the country often makes the news. Clean Water Waves highlights recent articles featuring our staff speaking on their areas of activism and expertise.
Environmental Advocates celebrate repeal of No Stricter Than Federal, urge bolder Great Lakes and climate agenda
"Today’s passage of SB 14 was a beginning to the important work our legislature still has in front of it - protecting our Great Lakes, holding polluters accountable, and addressing the climate crisis. However repealing bad laws must only be the beginning."
Groups Call for Action by President Biden as Michigan Marks Two Years Since Governor Whitmer Ordered Crude Oil Pipeline Shutdown
As Michigan marks the two-year point this week since the Canadian oil giant Enbridge began defying a state shutdown order, citizen groups today called for the Biden administration to take immediate action to protect the Great Lakes from a crude oil pipeline that turned 70 years old in April 2023.