Waste

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.

Trash can full of disposable coffee cups
Maryland

Burning trash is not recycling!

Under a quirk of Maryland code, burning trash can count as recycling.

Burning trash is not recycling!

Recent Actions

New Jersey

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.

Go Reusable! Urge your town to pass a local plastics ordinance
Maryland

Tell Baltimore City: sewage backups stink

The Baltimore City Council is holding investigative hearings on sewer backups and what the City is doing to solve this urgent public health and financial threat.

Tell Baltimore City: sewage backups stink
Maryland

No More Cash for Burning Trash!

It is time for the state to stop providing public subsidies for clean, renewable energy to an industry that pollutes our neighborhoods.

No More Cash for Burning Trash!
California

Let's get a handle on plastic waste in California!

What we use every day effects the environment.  Single use items such as packaging, paper cups, plastic take out containers, etc.

Take action!

Related Waste Topics

Waste Publications

Waste Blog Posts

Reducing Plastic Waste and COVID-19
March 31, 2020

Across the country and the world, we are all struggling to cope with the new reality that is COVID-19. Our lives have been upended and everyone is trying to figure out how to minimize their risk to this new virus.

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SB723: Consumer Protection & Right to Repair
March 12, 2020

Yesterday, I testified in favor of Senate Bill 723, to give consumers a right to repair their electronics. This might not seem like an environmental issue, but the flood of thrown away products has an enormous environmental impact. Read the joint written testimony signed by 9 organizations below.

SB723: Consumer Protection: Right to Repair

Senate Finance Committee

March 11, 2020

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Baltimore's 2020 Sewer Update
February 28, 2020

On Thursday, January 23, Baltimore’s Department of Public Works held a public information session on its tasks and progress on sewers and Baltimore’s sewage consent decree. DPW lawyer Paul DeSantis spoke for the brunt of presentation, and afterwards six stations were also held to elucidate issues in the eye of the public.

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