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This July, let’s make America the Land of the Plastic-Free!

July 8, 2025 | By Alison Correia

This Plastic Free July, take stock of your consumer habits, strive to reduce your plastic consumption, spread the word, take action in your community, and speak out to your local government. Let's demand an end to the reign of “disposable” plastics and build a sustainable, reusable future!

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Reducing Plastic Waste and COVID-19

March 31, 2020 | By Emily Ranson, Anne Hulick, Johnathan Berard, Andria Ventura, Elizabeth Saunders, and Amy Goldsmith

A switch back to single-use plastics does nothing to stop COVID-19, but it does undermine recent efforts to reduce our reliance on a material that pollutes our world in every stage of its life: manufacture, disposal, and eventual breakdown in our oceans.

Children’s health should not be a lottery system

April 12, 2018 | By Maureo Fernández y Mora

When I applied to be a door to door canvasser for Clean Water in my senior year of college, I figured it would be a pretty cool part time job until graduation. Little did I know that Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund would be my first employer out of college as well! After just under a year