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Trash Free Maryland works to create policies and behavior change to prevent litter and trash pollution. It brings together organizations and individuals to collaborate on advocacy and education, with a focus on source reduction. trashfreemaryland.org
TFM’s first six months of 2025: what we’ve accomplished so far!
Support litter-busting policies like #bagbans and #bottlebills, contact your representatives, and donate to directly support our work for the most effective litter reducing policies in Maryland!
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Image of empty plastic beverage bottles with bold text on top that says, "Be drastic & ditch plastic." Smaller letting around says "plastic free july," race to zero waste, 100% plastic-free, and reduce, reuse, recycle.
It’s Plastic Free July!
Reduce your single-use plastic this month!
We'll bring you tips to reduce plastic around you, your home, your community, and our state as we move away from single-use plastics! Follow along with these hashtags!
#PlasticFreeTrashFreeMD
#PlasticFreeTFMD
#PlasticFreeJuly
👀Starting #PlasticFreeJuly watching our neighbors in DE advance "Skip the Stuff" legislation similar to what is in place in other state & local jurisdictions. DE's proposal would prevent restaurants from providing single-use plastic items except upon request. www.delawarepublic.org/politics-gov...
01.07.2025 22:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Picture shows 4 adults on an urban sidewalk holding trash grabber tools and carrying orange trash bags and wearing blue safety vests under a hot sun.
Photo shows group of 70 people wearing blue safety vests and holding orange trash bags and listening to a man with a megaphone in front of a tent and banner that says, "Trash Free Maryland - Eliminating Litter One Policy and One Cleanup at a Time."
THANK YOU to more than 70 volunteers and our brewery partners in the South Baltimore Brewery District Litter Cleanup!🚯🍻
For now, we picked up:
1,849 beverage containers
953 pieces of food packaging
For the future, we support policies like a #MDbottlebill that prevent litter in the first place!
Picture of group of volunteers and a dog wearing blue safety vests and carrying trash bags and litter picker uppers. Text says South Baltimore Brewery District Cleanup June 29th 10am. Trash Free Maryland logo with circle representing natural areas in Maryland is overlaid on picture.
South Baltimore Brewery District Cleanup! 6/29, 10am
Celebrate summer and join TFMD to clear streets of litter, learn about our anti-litter actions, & earn a voucher for a free beverage at a participating brewery! Join us!
Register here: www.trashfreemaryland.org/events/soboc...
ICYMI: SB901 has officially been signed into law!
13.05.2025 20:51 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great tour of Helpsy today! Learned how Helpsy makes it easy for communities and organizations to recycle clothing and shoes and helps divert 30million pounds of textiles from landfills each year! Thanks to Maryland Recycling Network for organizing!
24.04.2025 21:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Two priority bills for #recycling took significant steps this morning! Sen. Augustine's SB901 (Producer Responsibility for Packaging) received a favorable vote out of Senate EEE & Del. Terrassa's HB232 (#BottleBill) was voted favorably out of House E&T Committee! #MDGA25 #MarylandPolitics Thank you!
14.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of an opening slide in a presentation. Text says"Beverage Container Redemption Technologies March 10, 2025, Sierra Club MD". Pictures show people placing empty bottles into a reverse vending machine or people putting a bag into a parking lot kiosk labeled "CLYNK"
Screen shot of a woman wearing glasses and bottle earrings with a blurred background in a zoom meeting.
Thrilled to participate in this webinar hosted by @sierraclubmd.bsky.social to explain how beverage container redemption technologies work to increase #recycling convenience & access in states with #bottlebills! You can watch the briefing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvmg.... #MDGA25 #bottlebill
13.03.2025 22:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SoBo Brewery District Cleanup! 3/5, 10am
Celebrate spring and join TFMD to clear streets of litter, learn about exciting legislation pending in the General Assembly #MDGA25, & earn a voucher for a free beverage at a participating brewery!
Register here: www.trashfreemaryland.org/events-page/...
Great discussion on trash sources in our local watersheds and opportunities for mitigation at the River Roundtable hosted by @anacostiariverkpr.bsky.social
26.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
People wearing shirts that say bottle bill now stand in front of MD state house and hold up handmade signs behind a banner that says bottle bill now. Handmade signs say you otter pass the bottle bill, break up with bottles, and bottle bill jobs.
Excited about tomorrow’s Senate EEE Committee hearing for a #bottlebill in Maryland! SB346 would bring a recycling refund and litter reduction program to MD, helping to improve collection and increase recycling of billions of beverage containers sold each year in MD.
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