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Waste Reduction RESOURCES

CHECKOUT BAGS

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EPR aka EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY

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FOOD WASTE

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PLASTIC STRAWS

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POLYSTYRENE aka STYROFOAM

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TEXTILES

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CHECKOUT BAGS

Ordinance Reference Sites

Plastic Bag Laws.

Bag Laws

Plastic Bags Reduction Guides

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

Facts & Footnotes

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

Breaking News & Alternatives

Set up Bag Bans in your Google Alerts

Alternatives

Bag Films & Videos

Top 10 Educational Bag Films/Videos

Free Bags Aren't "Free"

Houston, We Have a Problem, the Cost of Plastics

Story of Solutions

Ordinances

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)



EPR aka EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILTY

Ordinance/State Bill Reference Sites

Guide to EPR Proposals

National Product Stewardship Council

Product Stewardship Institute



EPR Guides

DEEP EPR in CT

CT Product Stewardship Council



Facts & Footnotes

EPR for Packaging

EPR in the New Plastics Economy

EPR: the good, bad and the ugly

National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

Resource Recycling

EPR in the News

Enter Extended Producer Responsibility  into your Google Alerts

EPR Presentations & Videos

CT EPR Working Group

NY Takes a Look at Producers

What is EPR?

Initiatives & Resolutions from CT Towns

Middletown CT tackles EPR

The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority

FOOD WASTE

Ordinance Reference Sites

Institute of Local Self Reliance

ReFed

Food Waste Reduction Guides

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


Facts & Footnotes

BioCycle

Food Waste & Compostable Bag Conundrum 

Feed More, Waste Less

6 Ways to Stop Food Waste

Breaking News & Alternatives

Enter Food Waste Reduction into your Google Alerts

Food Waste Films & Videos

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

Initiatives & Ordinances from CT Towns & Others

CT Commercial Organics Recycling Law 

Glastonbury, CT Food Waste Program

Harvard Food Law & Policy

Henninpin County, MN

PLASTIC STRAWS

Ordinance Reference Sites

Alameda, CA

Berkeley, CA

Hallandale, FL

Companies who have banned straws July 2018

Types of Ordinances

Plastic Straw Reduction Guides

B.A.N 2.0

Lonely Whale #dontsuck Campaign

OceanConservancy Skip the Straw Campaign

Save Our Shores

Strawless Ocean

The Last Plastic Straw


Facts & Footnotes

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

Greenpeace USA

InfoHub at S.O.S.

The Story of Stuff

Breaking News & Alternatives

Enter plastic straw bans into your google alerts

Alternatives

Straw Films & Videos

Blue the Film

Bow Seat

One Less Straw

Plastic Straws

Straws film

Initiatives & Ordinances from CT Towns & Others

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Connecticut College 

Skip the Plastic Norwalk

Skip the Straw Greenwich

California Straw Law: Passed 2018

Seattle Plastic Straw & Utensils Law: Effective July 2018



POLYSTYRENE aka STYROFOAM

Ordinance Reference Sites

Groundswell Map

Plastic Pollution Coalition

Surfrider Foundation


Polystyrene Pollution Reduction Guides

7th Generation Advisors

Environment Connecticut 

Foam Free Maui


Facts & Footnotes

Plastics and Clean Air

Polystyrene

Production of Methane & Ethylene from Plastics

Recommendations for Reducing or Banning "Styrofoam"

The Dangers of Polystyrene

Breaking News & Alternatives

Enter Styrofoam Bans into your Google Alerts

alternatives

Styrofoam Films & Videos

Green To Go

Polystyrene Ban Education

Styrofoam Mom

Initiatives & Ordinances from CT Towns & Others

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Banning Styrofoam in CT ?

NYC Food Foam Ban 2018


TEXTILES

Policy Reference Sites

Maine EPR legislation

CA Textile Policy

France National EPR Programme

San Francisco Mandatory Recycling & Composting Ordinance


Textile Pollution Reduction Guides

CT State Textile Recycling Program

#Re-Clothe NY

Cal Recycle

Make Fashion Circular

Facts & Footnotes

Measuring Fashion

EPA Textile Pollution Prevention Manual

EPA Textile Data

Textile Films & Videos

ThreadUp business statistics 

Ellen MacArthur Foundation Textile Pollution

Fashion Industry Carbon Footprint > Airline Industry

Textile Mountain

Local Initiatives

Town of Manchester, CT

West Hartford, CT

Eco Cycle Solutions

Videos to Check Out


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