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Urge your town to pass a local plastics ordinance
Please contact your local officials to let them know you would like to see a single-use plastics ordinance in your hometown.
Clean Water is taking-on single use products. From shopping bags, to food and beverage packaging, to plastic water bottles, our goal is to minimize the use of single use products. We engage businesses, local governments, and individual consumers in rethinking the disposable lifestyle.
Please contact your local officials to let them know you would like to see a single-use plastics ordinance in your hometown.
On September 21st, a group of Baltimore residents, local elected officials, and environmental advocates rallied in a str
The United States contains 5% of the world’s population, yet consumes about a quarter of the planet’s resources. Much of this consumption stems from our “throw away” lifestyle, whereby many products are used once and then thrown away. This started in the 1950s, when the plastics and chemical industries sold the American public on the convenience of single-use disposable items. In 2011, the average American produced 4.4 pounds of household garbage per day, twice as much as in 1960.
The great state of New Jersey has a chance to make a huge splash in the fight to save our oceans from plastic pollution.
Internet challenges come and go, and generally I don’t pay much attention to them. This week, however, I began to see pictures of people posing with bags full of trash they had collected pop up all over social media. It seems the #trashtag challenge has taken off across the globe, bringing a ton of attention to a problem that has plagued us for decades, ever since the advent of our convenient, throwaway lifestyle.