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What to do with your Halloween pumpkins? Compost!

November 5, 2025 | By Gabi Sanchez

With autumn in full swing and Halloween behind us, it’s the perfect time to give your pumpkins a second life through pumpkin composting!

Each year, Americans toss more than a billion pounds of pumpkins into the trash, but composting them keeps organic waste out of landfills and incinerators while

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Baltimore City’s Clean Water Candidates: Primary Endorsements

April 15, 2024 | By Jennifer Kunze
The next term of Baltimore city government will be critical for environmental justice in Baltimore. The next four years will be pivotal for the infrastructure investments we need for cleaner water, cleaner air, and healthier communities in the city. Clean Water Action is excited to endorse these four candidates who have shown strong support for climate action, environmental justice, and public health in Baltimore.
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Composite image of the listed endorsed candidates. A text box that says "Clean Water Action endorses." Clean Water Action's logo. A button that says "VOTE"

REOPENED: Grants for Your School to Stop Food Waste and Start Composting!

March 11, 2024 | By Gabi Sanchez
In the past few years, Clean Water Action and compost advocates across the state have campaigned for the state of Maryland to give more support to schools to compost and rescue usable food. In December, the Maryland State Department of Education opened the first round of grant applications to local schools and school systems. Did you miss it? Good news: the grant opportunity has re-opened!
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Graphic showing the details of the grant program in the blog post, with clipart of apple cores, banana peels, and other food waste
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