ReThink Disposable

Blogs from our national ReThink Disposable Team

North Jersey's New ReThink Disposable Organizer!

December 5, 2017 | By Maura Toomey

I'm so excited to start a new position as the new North Jersey organizer for Clean Water Action’s Rethink Disposable program. I want to mention that I’m a canvasser too. If you live in North Jersey, we may have met at your front door! While I’m canvassing and talking to people all over the state about environmental issues in New Jersey, I love the fact that no matter where I go everyone cares about the environment and tries to do their part in protecting it.

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ReThinking Institutions: Stopping Waste and Pollution at the Source

October 18, 2017 | By Samantha Sommer

One of the toughest challenges working in the environmental movement is it can be difficult to point to a specific and measurable impact, in the same way that polluters can kid themselves they’re doing well, with their up-ticking sales and profit graphs.

It takes all of us working together, but

People Are Going Wild About Reducing Plastic Pollution

August 2, 2017 | By Chris Slafter

Catch up on the Plastic Free July news from Berkeley...

Introducing Kate Triggiano, our new Rethink Disposable Coordinator!

July 19, 2017 | By Kate Triggiano

Hello! My name is Kate Triggiano and I am the new Rethink Disposable Coordinator for Clean Water Action's ReThink Disposable program in New Jersey! Rethink Disposable's goal is to minimize the use of single use products: from shopping bags and food and beverage packaging, to plastic straws and water

Just Say No to Straws

May 24, 2017 | By Jenny Vickers

Every day in the U.S., people use 500 million straws a day - enough to circle to planet more than two-and-a-half times! Straws are now one of the top 10 marine debris items found on our beaches. And by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the ocean.

So, what do we do about it?

An easy step

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More Foam Bans In California: Milpitas Adopts First Reading Of Expanded Polystyrene Foodware Ordinance

May 22, 2017 | By Chris Slafter

Excitingly, on May 16, 2017, Milpitas City Council in California held a public hearing and adopted the first reading of an Expanded Polystyrene (EPS) foodware ordinance necessary to restrict the provision of EPS foam food service ware and protect public health, safety, and welfare.

Both the American