ReThink Disposable

Blogs from our national ReThink Disposable Team

Cedar Lake Triathlon Goes Zero Waste

August 7, 2025 | By Kindell Welker

The collaboration between Clean Water Action’s team, the United Church of Chester, and the Cedar Lake Triathlon Series replaced disposable cups and plastic water bottles with reusable cups and silicone water bottles, resulting in a reduction of roughly 200 disposable cups and 20 plastic bottles per race from the trash. Throughout a season, that adds up quickly.

Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse stage sign lit in blue light.

Bringing Sustainability to Freight & Salvage

July 30, 2025 | By Clean Water Fund

When the ReThink Disposable California team approached the historic Freight & Salvage music venue to discuss moving away from single-use disposables, we knew we were going to ask them to make a new kind of history.

ReThink Disposable Collaborates with Schools to Bring Reuse to our Youth

July 18, 2025 | By Amber Schmidt and Julie Wedge

K-12 students spend half their year in school, with up to 60% of students choosing school-provided lunch options. Pre-K and daycare kids are in these educational settings year-round. Unfortunately, many schools serve meals on disposable cafeteria foodware such as polystyrene foam trays and plastic utensils.

Why Plastic Free July?

July 10, 2025 | By Julie Wedge

Each year we collaborate with our reuse partners to highlight our work reducing single use plastic foodware from our waste streams. Why? Well, we know that 50% of all plastic ever produced has been manufactured since 2000. We also know that plastic contains forever chemicals that are known to cause health problems in humans.

This July, let’s make America the Land of the Plastic-Free!

July 8, 2025 | By Alison Correia

This Plastic Free July, take stock of your consumer habits, strive to reduce your plastic consumption, spread the word, take action in your community, and speak out to your local government. Let's demand an end to the reign of “disposable” plastics and build a sustainable, reusable future!

image of a woman at a table of reusable dishware and bottles reads: See what we're serving up this plastic-free july!

National ReThink Webinar Graphic with kid holding reusable straw and cup

Plastic Free July ReThink Disposable Webinar

July 30, 2024 | Virtual

Join us for a dynamic conversation with our expert panel—featuring a state legislator, celebrity chef, school administrator, charitable meal program director, and program manager at an environmental agency—on how we can move beyond single-use plastics for good.