06/09/2021 Plastic Bag Fee Now In the 2020 legislative session of the General Assembly, Virginia finally passed a bill allowing municipalities to write an ordinance placing a 5 cent fee...
05/14/2021 Is It Personal or Corporate Behaviors That Need To Change? There is an ongoing debate in some environmental circles about whether we need to change our personal behavior to combat climate change, or if we...
04/29/2021 Why we should use reusable bags Lately, I have been hearing about people questioning whether reusable bags are really better than single use plastic bags for the environment. So, I thought...
02/28/2021 No more plastic bags for yard waste in Fairfax County! On Tuesday, February 24th the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted to adopt an amendment to the county’s solid waste management ordinance that would prohibit...
01/13/2021 ACTION ALERT: Tell your delegate to support the Styrofoam ban bill The 30-day 2021 General Assembly session starts today, January 13. And with only two weeks to hear bills in committee and on the floor before...
12/29/2020 What We’re Working on in 2021 Haven’t made it to a general meeting in a while? Wondering what we’ve been working on and how you can help? Here is what you’ve...
10/30/2020 30 Days Without Cheese By Mala Persaud, owner, Trace–The Zero Waste Store This article originally appeared on the Trace–The Zero Waste Store website. If you took the 350Fairfax Plastic...
10/28/2020 Plastic Free at the Grocery Store: 2020 Update In 2018, 350 Fairfax member and Mothers Out Front Fairfax County co-leader Bobby Monacella wrote a thoughtful and detailed overview of how to avoid plastic...
10/25/2020 Plastic Free Shopping Beyond the Grocery Store: 2020 Update In 2018, I wrote a version of this post that was heavily focused on in-person shopping—which is clearly the easiest way to shop Plastic Free....
10/22/2020 Plastic Free Holidays: 2020 Update Last year I wrote a Plastic Free post about reducing waste during the holiday season. Even though we’re all likely downsizing our holiday celebrations this...
