Attend: Planet or Plastic?

The Kenosha Public Museum is introducing a new exhibit from August 19th - January 14th! "Planet or Plastic?" shines a spotlight on the fragility of the natural environment due to the global plastic waste crisis. The exhibition endeavors to raise awareness of society's dependence on plastic by visually depicting the crisis through 7- photographs and highlighting the innovative individuals and communities working on solutions to this urgent problem

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Attend: Green and Healthy Schools Conference

Join the Green Schools Consortium of Milwaukee at the 7th Annual Green & Healthy Schools Conference, this year at the Milwaukee County Zoo. They have teamed up, once again, with Plastic-Free MKE to make this a Lake Friendly Conference! Gather together with teachers, administrators, government officials, educational nonprofits, and community members to learn from each other how to build greener and healthier schools for generations to come in the Milwaukee area.

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Welcome our new Lake Friendly Business!

Xylem is our first Lake Friendly Office Space! Xylem is transforming water management so people can transform their lives. They are a global water technology provider that is focused on helping customers solve the world's toughest water challenges through innovative products, services, and solutions. They're creating a world that is more sustainable - and one of the ways they're succeeding is by making their Milwaukee offices plastic-free. Thank you!

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Why the Recycling Symbol Can End Up in the Trash Bin

"The Environmental Protect Agency - along with thousands of environmentalists and individuals - are arguing the Federal Trade Commission to drop the symbol from plastics that aren't actually recyclable."

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Environmentalist Want the FTC Green Guides to Slam the Door on the 'Chemical' Recycling

"The plastics industry says heating and treating plastic waste with chemicals enables it to make new plastics. But environmentalists say that process, emitting large amounts of climate and air pollution, isn't recycling..."  

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Even BPA-Free Plastic Particles Can Mess With Your Sex Hormones, Study Finds

"Researches followed up to study the potential impact on pulmonary inflammation, cardiovascular function, systemic inflammation and endocrine disruption. They found a decrease in the levels of the reproductive hormone 17 beta-estradiol."

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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is So Huge and Permanent That a Coastal Ecosystem is Thriving

"In a new study published in the Nature Ecology & Evolution journal on Monday, a team of researchers revealed that dozens of species of coastal invertebrate organisms have been able to survive and reproduce on plastic garbage … for years."

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Our Way of Life is Poisoning Us

"There is plastic in our bodies; it's in our lungs and in our bowels and in the blood that pulses through us. We can't see it, and we can't feel it, but it is there. It is there in the water we drink and the food we eat, and even in the air we breathe. This psychic material was fated to work its poison on our lives."

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Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD)

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) is a regional government agency that provides public health protection and clean drinking water for millions of people in the Greater Milwaukee Area. MMSD is highly regarded nationally as a leader in wastewater treatment, flood management, and green infrastructure. They also lead work on water quality, sustainability, education and outreach, and implement the MMSD private property program. As a recipient of the U.S. Water Prize and many other awards, they are most proud of maintaining their record of 98.5%, since 1994, for capturing and cleaning wastewater from 28 communities in a 423 square mile area. Many struggle to capture and clean the national goal of 85% of all the rain and wastewater that enters their sewer systems. MMSD are partners for a cleaner environment, which makes them partners for Plastic-Free MKE!