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Single Use Plastics
from West Chester Borough Sustainability Advisory Committee West Chester Borough is taking steps to curb single-use plastic waste. In July 2019 Borough Council approved an ordinance banning single use plastic bags and straws in West Chester, effective July 2nd 2020. September 2018 – local students ask Council to address single use plastic bags and straws …
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Chester County Environment Alliance meeting Sept. 14
On Sept. 14, the West Chester Green Team met productively for over 2 hours with our environmental friends in the Chester County Environment Alliance (CCEA), an umbrella organization formed with almost 30 of Chester County’s local environmental organizations–and still growing! “Like” the CCEA public Facebook page to stay up to date on local meetings, other…
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Pottstown Is USA’s 1st City To Have Flexible Plastic Recycling
By Justin Heinze, West Chester Patch, Sep 30, 2019 Plastic bags, wraps, packaging, product packaging, and more, a significant part of modern waste, can be recycled in the innovative program POTTSTOWN, PA — Pottstown has been chosen as the first municipality in all of North America to pilot an innovative recycling program that could drastically…
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Environmental Film Series at WCU
The Third Annual Environmental Film Series at WCU sponsored by the Office of Sustainability at West Chester University, the West Chester Green Team, and member groups of the Chester County Environment Alliance, in memory of Graham Hudgings. Sykes Student Union Theater, 110 W. Rosedale Ave., West Chester PA 19382. Door opens at 5:30 p.m., films…
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More about the Climate Action and Peace rally, West Chester, 9/21/19
Why combine these 2 topics? Because Saturday was the International Day of Peace, and we can’t be at peace with nature if we aren’t at peace with ourselves and other people. The theme for the day set by the refrain of one of Rev. Dan Schatz’s songs at the beginning: “I ain’t gonna be treated…
