Amaranth Bakery & Café is Now Lake Friendly!
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Thank you for your commitment!
The Lake Friendly Business Program is expanding with the addition of Amaranth Bakery & Café! Amaranth Bakery & Café is a 5-Star bakery located in Walnut Hill, Milwaukee. You can stop in for a quick pick-me-up, or stay all day eating their lovely assortment of baked goods in a cozy and charming atmosphere. Be sure to frequent their Facebook page to know the upcoming soup & salad of-the-day for the next week. They will always be there to welcome! Supporting local Lake Friendly Businesses is a great way to eliminate single-use plastics in your community, so be sure to check out their menu!
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Join: A Plastics Panel: For the Great lakes
Please join Plastic-Free MKE on Wednesday, April 5th at 5:30 pm CT for a plastics panel, featuring Dr. Laodong Guo and Dr. Dong Fang Deng from UWM School of Freshwater Sciences. We'll get an overview of some of the current groundbreaking research on plastics happening at SFS, then take a deeper dive into microplastics and how they are impacting fish health. The panel will end with an informative Q&A that you will not want to miss!
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Join: A Plastic-Free Volunteer Training Session
Plastic-Free MKE will be holding two Volunteer Training Sessions for Tabling & Refill Station Events, as well as the Lake Friendly Business Program! You will have the chance to learn how to table for Plastic-Free MKE, how to run a Water Refill Station, and how to support a business in becoming Lake Friendly. We are super excited to continue to support Milwaukee - so please join us!
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Coalition Member Spotlight
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Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO)
The City of Milwaukee Environmental Collaboration Office (ECO) strives to improve our community by implementing a variety of environmental programs, such as the ECO Neighborhoods Initiative - all with the goal of making Milwaukee a world class eco-city. ECO oversees the development of the City's forthcoming Climate and Equity Plan and continues to be a key organization for the Plastic-Free MKE movement. Thank you for all that you do for Plastic-Free!
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Microplastics are Filling the Skies. Will They Affect the Climate?
"Recent studies reveal that tiny pieces of plastic are constantly lofted into the atmosphere. These particles can travel thousands of miles and affect the formation of clouds, which means they have the potential to impact temperature, rainfall, and even climate change."
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Nets, Plastic, Underwater Crime - How to Stop Ocean Pollution
"One of the most harmful types of marine plastic debris is abandoned, lost, discarded fishing gear. About 640 thousand tons of fishing equipment get dumped into the ocean each year, not only entrapping marine life..."
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Volume of Microplastics Found on Ocean Floor Triples in Two Decades, Scientists Warn
“Since the 1980s, but especially in the past two decades, the accumulation of polyethene and polypropylene particles from packaging, bottles, and food films has increased, as well as polyester from synthetic fibers in clothing fabrics.”
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Plastic Pellet Pollution Can End Through Coordinated Efforts, Reports Show
"You can be exposed to endocrine disruptors through the food and drink you consume, the pesticides you come into contact with and the cosmetics that you use, NIEHS says. Basically, they're nearly everywhere."
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Plastic Works its Way Up the Food Chain to Hit Fishing Cats, Study Shows
"During a dietary study on fishing cats living near Colombo, Sri Lanka, researchers made an unexpected finding: Some scat samples collected contained plastics. Varying in size from tiny microplastics to larger debris in the form of macroplastics..."
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Plastic 'Nurdles' Stop Sea Urchins From Developing Properly, Study Finds
"They found that the sea urchin larvae that were raised in water contaminated by pellets bought from a plastic manufacturer developed significant abnormalities at all three concentrations tested (1, 5 and 10% of plastic).”
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Bring Us Into Your Classroom!
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Are your students interested in learning about the increasingly plastic world around them?
Milwaukee Riverkeeper, a Plastic-Free MKE coalition member, can provide a free, in-classroom lesson and audit that will help students understand the lifecycle of plastic, how the process of creating plastics causes pollution, and how their disposal leads to problems in our ecosystems. Along with a lesson, students can conduct an audit with their own plastic wastes, discuss problems and patterns with plastics, as well as reflect on solutions through their own lens.
Contact the Education Coordinator, Kia Vang, at education@milwaukeeriverkeeper.org, for more information.
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