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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.

Recycling right is important! To learn more, check out: 📑Clean Fairfax's article on Rethinking the 3 Rs: cleanfairfax.org/2024/05/30/sus…

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

🚛 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

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) 🔗:librarycalendar.fairfaxcounty.gov/event/15288127

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! 🍁

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! 🗞️ cleanfairfax.org/2025/10/16/env…

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.

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: cleanfairfax.org/blog/

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: nvswcdevents.myrec.com/info/products/…

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. 🪱

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: cleanfairfax.org/blog

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: cleanfairfax.org/blog

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. cleanfairfax.org/blog

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! cleanfairfax.org/blog

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! cleanfairfax.org/blog

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.

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: cleanfairfax.org/blog

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. ✅