ReThink Disposable

Blogs from our national ReThink Disposable Team

Cedar Lake Triathlon Goes Zero Waste

August 7, 2025 | By Kindell Welker

The collaboration between Clean Water Action’s team, the United Church of Chester, and the Cedar Lake Triathlon Series replaced disposable cups and plastic water bottles with reusable cups and silicone water bottles, resulting in a reduction of roughly 200 disposable cups and 20 plastic bottles per race from the trash. Throughout a season, that adds up quickly.

Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse stage sign lit in blue light.

Bringing Sustainability to Freight & Salvage

July 30, 2025 | By Clean Water Fund

When the ReThink Disposable California team approached the historic Freight & Salvage music venue to discuss moving away from single-use disposables, we knew we were going to ask them to make a new kind of history.

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!

image of a woman at a table of reusable dishware and bottles reads: See what we're serving up this plastic-free july!

Clean Water Making Waves graphic showing special Guest Chef Tu David Phu

Making Waves 2025

July 24, 2025 | Oakland, CA

Join us on July 24 for Clean Water's Making Waves 2025!

ReThink Takes on Takeout - No More Trash To-Go

April 10, 2025 | By Julie Wedge

Changing consumer behavior to return reusable takeout items - creating the circular economy we are looking to build - will take time, education, and commitment from the food service industry and programs such as ours, so ReThink Disposable is rethinking takeout.