Clean Fairfax

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If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the pollution. Working to get Fairfax Co Cleaner, Greener, more sustainable since 1985.

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Hi friends! We are no longer regularly updating this page, but please check out our linktree to find our other socials and website to keep up with Clean Fairfax. :) https://t.co/VPH8LVmtVw

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It's #WorldSoilDay! Healthy soil helps us in so many ways; it reduces flooding, cools our urban areas, provides nutrients to the food we eat, and promotes biodiversity. 🌱 We can keep soil healthy by composting, reducing erosion, and minimizing chemical and waste pollution.

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Recycling right is important! To learn more, check out:
📑Clean Fairfax's article on Rethinking the 3 Rs: https://t.co/8VbCDeTQP6

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Happy America and Fairfax Recycles Day! We're celebrating by debunking some recycling myths (including the recycling symbol ♻️), reframing our waste reduction mindsets, and discussing how to recycle right! 🧵
#AmericaRecyclesDay #FairfaxRecyclesDay

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🚛 Touch-A-Truck + Free Drop-off!
Celebrate Fairfax Recycles Day Nov 15

🕚 11 AM–3 PM | Backlick VRE
♻️ See county trucks like the CCTV Flusher Truck
🔌 Drop off e-waste & batteries free!

#FairfaxRecyclesDay #FairfaxCounty

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Join Jen Cole, our Executive Director, this Sunday at Pohick Library as she shares strategies for a low waste, low cost, and low stress holiday season! 🎁

📆: Sunday, November 9, 2-3pm
📍: Pohick Regional Library (6450 Sydenstricker Rd, Burke VA 22015)
🔗:https://t.co/cvETBVoPpP

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Virginia is looking beautiful this week! 🍂 If you're out on a trail to see the fall colors, remember your reusable water bottle and to pack out any trash to keep the outdoors beautiful! 🍁

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This week's environmental news stories include recognition for climate activists, Boston's booming food forests, India's innovative cafe, un-greenwashing compostables, and a teen's efforts to rid Scotland of single-use plastic! 🗞️ https://t.co/1zVKpDtirn

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Today is No Disposable Cup Day! It's the perfect day to start a habit of bringing your own cup, jar, or mug when you get takeout drinks.
Even paper cups typically contain a plastic lining, making it difficult for recycling centers to process. <1% of disposable cups are recycled.

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This week, we have an exciting opportunity to share: make your own worm composting bin! Also, get educated about Virginia environmental issues; and stories on recycling system design, microplastics in face masks, and environmental health risks: https://t.co/Huxa33WcDy

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Registration is open now for our worm composting bin workshop with @nvswcd, @cityoffairfaxva, and Pollinative!
📆:Saturday, October 4th, 2-4pm
📍:Green Acres Center, Fairfax City
Register now ($10) to learn from experts and make your own bin to take home: https://t.co/NTmlnNpYan

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Save the date! Come learn all about worm composting and build your own fully stocked bin at our workshop with @nvswcd, @cityoffairfaxva, and Pollinative! Registration (coming soon!) will be $10 and have limited spots open for October 4th, 2-4pm at Green Acres in Fairfax. 🪱

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This week: calling all nature-minded artists in Fairfax County to enter a design contest. Also, plastic bags and grocery delivery services; a failed plastic factory in PA; dangers of chemicals in hair styling products; and youth leading lawsuits in WI: https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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Before you do anything else, go tell USDOT that safe bicycling infrastructure means safer roads for all users. Plus, BuzzBallz; the global plastic treaty falls through; Lagos targets single-use plastics; and the EPA is hiding risks from the public: https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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It’s a good news/bad news week for the ENR: Chesapeake Bay underwater grasses hold their ground; Connecticut sees higher beverage container return rates; another state bans EPS foam; but boy do those plastics continue to wreak havoc around the globe. https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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We’re into the home stretch of summer. This week's ENR: a firefly primer; yet another attempt at a global plastic pollution treaty; a New Jersey PFAS suit; and how to recycle your metal cans right so that they actually get made back into cans! https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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This week we’re sharing good news only: the return of American chestnuts and growing reefs, reuse programs, and a legal victory in the fight against pollution. Plus, this weekend’s sales tax holiday on school and emergency supplies! https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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Just because we're at the end of #PlasticFreeJuly doesn't mean you can go back to single use plastic drink bottles. Get yourself a nice tumbler or bottle--put water, juice, lemonade, or ice tea in it. Whatever! We don't judge what you drink, just what you drink out of.

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In this week’s roundup, we’re talking about organic waste, plastic waste, and what policy can do about those things! We’re also discussing the EPA along with the record-breaking heat and humidity we’re experiencing in Northern Virginia: https://t.co/yX2yapp2zI

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You know you've been waiting for this week's #PlasticFreeJuly post: You absolutely do not need to take all that plastic cutlery when you get food to go. Keep real silverware at work. Use real silverware at home. ✅