Waste Reduction RESOURCES

Plastic Bag Laws.

Bag Laws

Bag It Movie Tool Kit

Break Free from Plastic 

Citizens Campaign for the Environment

Plastic Pollution Coalition 

Product Stewardship Institute (PSI)

Rethink Disposable 

Community Outreach Aids

Bring an upcycle bag craft to schools and clubs

Run a Bag Drive

Run BYO Bag Design Contest

Bad News about  Bioplastics & "Compostable" Plastics

NY State Plastic Bag Impact Study

Plastic Bags

Plastics Breakdown

Why Paper Bag Fees are Important?

What is a Mil?

Why mils matter!

Hawaii Closing the Mil loop holes - 10mil

Set up Bag Bans in your Google Alerts

Top 10 Educational Bag Films/Videos

Free Bags Aren't "Free"

Houston, We Have a Problem, the Cost of Plastics

Story of Solutions

For a Full List of BYOCT ordinances

September 2008 - Westport

March 2018 - Greenwich - 12 mil 

October 2018 - Stamford - ban/fee: hybrid model  (waiting for mayor signature)

October 2018 - Weston - ban/fee - 4 mil: hybrid model

January 2018 - Boston, MA - ban/fee: hybrid model

April 2018 - Mansfield, MA - 4mil

July 2018 - Honolulu, HI - $.15 on all bags, 10 mil thickness on all plastic bags

August 2018 - Anchorage, AK - ban/fee: hybrid model ($.10 - $.50 reusable & paper bag fee)

Guide to EPR Proposals

National Product Stewardship Council

Product Stewardship Institute

DEEP EPR in CT

CT Product Stewardship Council

EPR for Packaging

EPR in the New Plastics Economy

EPR: the good, bad and the ugly

National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

Resource Recycling

Enter Extended Producer Responsibility  into your Google Alerts

CT EPR Working Group

NY Takes a Look at Producers

What is EPR?

Middletown CT tackles EPR

The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority

Institute of Local Self Reliance

ReFed

CT CET Food Waste Solutions

EPA Food Recovery Hierarchy 

Food Waste Reduction Action Plan

Food Waste Reduction Guide for Schools

Food Waste Reduction in Schools

BioCycle

Food Waste & Compostable Bag Conundrum 

Feed More, Waste Less

6 Ways to Stop Food Waste

Enter Food Waste Reduction into your Google Alerts

Dive: Living off America's Waste

Expired? Food Waste in America

Just Eat It

Ten Stories about Food Waste 

Wasted, The Story of Food Waste

CT Commercial Organics Recycling Law 

Glastonbury, CT Food Waste Program

Harvard Food Law & Policy

Henninpin County, MN

Alameda, CA

Berkeley, CA

Hallandale, FL

Companies who have banned straws July 2018

Types of Ordinances

B.A.N 2.0

Lonely Whale #dontsuck Campaign

OceanConservancy Skip the Straw Campaign

Save Our Shores

Strawless Ocean

The Last Plastic Straw

B.A.N. 2.0 (so good we are listing it 2x!)

Greenpeace USA

InfoHub at S.O.S.

The Story of Stuff

Enter plastic straw bans into your google alerts

Blue the Film

Bow Seat

One Less Straw

Plastic Straws

Straws film

Visit BYOCT Ordinances

Connecticut College 

Skip the Plastic Norwalk

Skip the Straw Greenwich

California Straw Law: Passed 2018

Seattle Plastic Straw & Utensils Law: Effective July 2018

Groundswell Map

Plastic Pollution Coalition

Surfrider Foundation

7th Generation Advisors

Environment Connecticut 

Foam Free Maui

Plastics and Clean Air

Polystyrene

Production of Methane & Ethylene from Plastics

Recommendations for Reducing or Banning "Styrofoam"

The Dangers of Polystyrene

Enter Styrofoam Bans into your Google Alerts

Green To Go

Polystyrene Ban Education

Styrofoam Mom

Visit BYOCT ordinances

Banning Styrofoam in CT ?

NYC Food Foam Ban 2018

Maine EPR legislation

CA Textile Policy

France National EPR Programme

San Francisco Mandatory Recycling & Composting Ordinance

CT State Textile Recycling Program

#Re-Clothe NY

Cal Recycle

Make Fashion Circular

Measuring Fashion

EPA Textile Pollution Prevention Manual

EPA Textile Data

ThreadUp business statistics 

Ellen MacArthur Foundation Textile Pollution

Fashion Industry Carbon Footprint > Airline Industry

Textile Mountain

Town of Manchester, CT

West Hartford, CT

Eco Cycle Solutions