The Environment Council of Rhode Island is a coalition of more than 60 Rhode Island organizations that advocate for policies to protect and enhance the environment. Our policy priorities would address some of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues.
Our legislative policy priorities address some of Rhode Island’s most pressing environmental issues.
Bay-Friendly Tip: Don’t Litter!Alyssa Pietraszek, communications internWhat is Litter?Litter strewn throughout a park in Cranston, Rhode IslandLitter, or the trash left on the ground in public or open areas, is one of the largest issues plaguing the world today. These non-biodegradable items, such as cigarette butts, plastic shopping bags, food wrappers, and soda cans, that are discarded during walks or tossed out of car windows frequently end up washed off of the streets into nearby water bodies or storm drains where they are carried out to the Bay.
Lincoln Middle School will create a school recycling project in partnership with Keep Blackstone Valley Beautiful.
Our main interests are reducing our carbon footprint, waste reduction, environmental justice & education.
To support the design and installation of custom recycling and trash receptacles as the final piece of a youth-led landscape redesign of the front of Woonsocket High School.
The School will send students to the 2015 RI Compost Conference and put on its own Waste Solutions Summit for schools.
Eliminates the prohibition on inclusion of incineration of solid waste in the statewide resource recovery system development plan.
Eliminates the prohibition of incinerating solid waste from the statewide solid waste management plan, would allow non-hazardous contaminated soils originating out of state for use on site as daily cover material, and would allow glass to be used as cover material.
Creates an eleven (11) member special select commission to make a comprehensive study of all technical, environmental, policy, and financial issues concerning the future of solid waste management in the state of Rhode Island, and who would report back to the General Assembly no later than December 31, 2013, and whose life would expire on June 30, 2014.
