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City Bans Single-Use Plastic in Restaurant Takeout
A new City Ordinance banning single-use foodware items in your takeout or delivery bag went into effect on January 18. Confused? We break it down.
Plastic-Free Self Care
Take care of you and the environment with these plastic-free ideas for your self-care and beauty routines. Even when plastic is unavoidable, we have found ways to responsibly deal with hard-to-recycle items.
Pitching Plastics Around the House
Now’s the perfect time to try a few new products around the house to help Pitch Plastics out of your everyday routine.
New Year's Resolutions
It’s a New Year—time for taking stock and setting goals. Leaders of the Environmental Action Committee share their Pitching Plastics goals for 2022 and encourage you to set some too!
Deck the Halls—Without Plastic
It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year—and also the most wasteful. American waste jumps by 25% from Thanksgiving to New Years, averaging out to an extra million pounds per week. Here's how to avoid plastic pitfalls.
Corporations Commit to Reducing the Use of Plastics
For the fourth year in a row, the worst plastic polluter in the world is the Coca-Cola Company. But the companies on the top-ten list are taking steps to improve.
Six Steps to a Plastic-Free Thanksgiving
Haven’t thought about all that plastic that winds up in the kitchen or on your Thanksgiving table, have you? Well, here are six steps you can take to get to a plastic-free Thanksgiving.
Reducing and Recycling Plastics at the Grocery Store
Grocery shopping is a primary source of the plastic that ends up as waste. Learn how to reduce the amount of plastic you get in grocery stores and take advantage of a great recycling opportunity.
I Have One Word for You, Benjamin: Plastics
Those of us old enough to remember the classic film The Graduate have seen a phenomenal change in attitude. While plastics were considered a business opportunity in 1967, they are now a grave environmental challenge.