Plastics

Beware of Black Plastic: Share leftover stuffing, NOT leftover toxics!

November 22, 2024 | By Kerry Doyle

Are you serving mashed potatoes with a side of toxic flame retardants? If you have Black Plastic kitchen utensils or food containers, the answer is probably YES. How did this happen and what can we all do about it? Let us explain.

Graphic design that says share leftover stuffing, not leftover toxics

Clean Water Action Comments on the 2024 Single Use Waste Reduction Act Proposed Department of Environmental Protection Amendments

June 17, 2024 | By Marta Young

Clean Water Action commends the work being done to ensure the Act’s success. It is imperative, though, to prevent loopholes that enable the plastics industry to continue to pollute our health and environment unnecessarily.

Take action: Protect our waters from microplastic pollution in RI!

Send a message to your RI state legislators asking them to protect our waterways from microplastic pollution!

Image of someone looking at microplastics under a microscope on the beach

Plastic bag caught on fence by river. Credit: Jennifer Schlicht

Ending Minnesota's Plastic Bag Ban Preemption: A Case For Local Control

March 8, 2024 | By Kyle Rosas

We know plastic bags are bad. We know they take forever and a year to break down. We know they leach toxic chemicals into our soil and water as they sit in landfills. And we know that if we want to vote to enact a plastic bag ban in our municipality, we should be allowed to do so. That is how democracy works.

"Lights, Camera, Plastic?"

Ask the producers, writers, directors, and set decorators in Hollywood to end the proliferation of single-use plastics on-screen.

The logos of these organizations arranged at the top of the testimony in the blog post below: Maryland Hunger Solutions Prince George's County Food Equity Council Centro de Apoyo Familiar (Center for Assistance to Families) Maryland Center on Economic Policy Maryland Nonprofits Progressive Maryland Clean Water Action National Aquarium Eastern Region Association of Forest and Nature Schools Maryland Ornithological Society Safe Skies Maryland Center for Nature-Informed Therapy Interfaith Partners for the Ches

Prince George's County: pass a more equitable Better Bag Bill!

September 27, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze and Gabi Sanchez

In June, Prince George’s County Council passed a “Better Bag Bill:” legislation to ban plastic bags and place a 10 cent charge on paper bags. Bills like these are an important step forward for the environment and great Zero Waste policy - but must be made in coalition with food access and equity organizations to ensure that any potential concerns are addressed.