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Back to School, Back to Zero Waste!

August 22, 2025 | By Gabi Sanchez

A new school year is the perfect time to build sustainable habits. At Clean Water Action, we’re working with schools and communities to cut down on plastic, promote composting, and move toward zero-waste, and we need your help to keep the momentum going!

Some Simple Sustainable Choices You Can Make

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Text on a green background says "Back to School, Back to Zero Waste!" above and below a picture of students sorting their cafeteria waste into several different bins.
Map of a portion of Montgomery County showing the proposed M83 route in red labeled "Northern-Removed"

Victory: Montgomery County cancels the M83 highway!

July 30, 2025 | By Emily Ranson

After decades of diligent advocacy, community members in Montgomery County have finally deleted a proposed new highway from the County’s Master Plan of Highways and Transitways!

The proposed highway in question was the M-83, the Mid-County Highway Extended, which was a six-mile, planned-but-unbuilt

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Leave the Leaves, Baltimore City!

November 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze
Leave the leaves is a movement that supports letting the fallen leaves stay on the ground in your yard to create an eco-friendly mulch for a healthier environment. Leaves provide many benefits including those for the environment, your health, and your home.
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Red and yellow maple leaves covering the entire surface
Maryland Composting

Making Frederick's compost pilot program permanent!

September 18, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze
For the past two years, the City of Frederick has offered free food scrap pickup to City households through Key City Compost, to be composted at Key City's compost facility near Thurmont. Now, the pilot program is coming to an end, and the City of Frederick faces the decision of whether to make it permanent, what the permanent parameters should be, and how it should be paid for.
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Great news! EPA & MDE order Baltimore City to help more households with sewer backups

July 17, 2023 | By Jennifer Kunze
For nearly a decade, Baltimore residents have been demanding that the City help people out when City infrastructure causes sewage to back up into people's homes. And this summer, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Maryland Department of the Environment are supporting residents' demands, ordering the City to start offering assistance to every household that faces a sewer backup caused by issues in City infrastructure.
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A farm in Central Maryland

On-Farm Composting Webinar

July 12, 2023 | By Emily Ranson
Farmers can play an integral role in a healthy, local environment, and this year Maryland passed legislation enabling farmers to accept more food scraps into their existing foot print for manure composting. Keith Ohlinger, a Central Maryland farmer, joined us to speak about how farmers can use food scraps to create compost, and what this means for the environment.
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