New Mainstream Green initiative – Syracuse CNY Freecycle Facebook Group
Mainstream Green launched an initiative in 2020 by setting up and are managing a new Facebook group, Syracuse CNY Freecycle. With more than 500 members now, people are able to keep useful items they no longer need out of the waste stream while at the same time offering other people…
Covid19 Crisis: Don’t Idle Your Engine When Waiting In Line for Virus Test
We are seeing long lines of cars is in New York, California, Washington DC and other places where COVID-19 testing is taking place. People are understandably concerned about whether or not they have this disease, so they may not realize that if they keep their car engines on continuously as…
COVID19 Crisis: Best Shopping Bags To Use
#PillowCases make best #ReusableBags during #covid19. Wash them in hot water with detergent after every use. #EasyCheapSafe #takecareofourplanet as you #takecareofyourself!
Mainstream Green in the News: Reusable Shopping Bags You Don’t Have to Buy
Many people have expressed concern about the impact that plastic shopping bag bans would have on low income people. In this video, a news story which appeared on Spectrum News in CNY, Mainstream Green’s President, Dana Johnston, talks about how people can use what they already have, to make their…
Mainstream Green in the News: Provided Thousands of Reusable Shopping Bags to Food Pantries
Many people have expressed concern about the impact that plastic shopping bag bans would have on low income people. Mainstream Green has addressed this issue in a number of ways, including donating thousands of reusable bags to food pantries throughout Onondaga County NY, and using social media to suggest that…
MLK Day: Lifting #EnvironmentalJustice with Reusable Bags
MainstreamGreen has eliminated the waste of 364,000 single use plastic shopping bags this year alone by donating thousands of reusable shopping bags to food pantries in Onondaga County, NY. Here Mainstream Green’s president, Dana Johnston, delivers 200 bags for distribution at the Martin Luther King day of service celebration at…
Mainstream Green in the News: Onondaga County Food Pantries Receive Reusable Shopping Bags from Mainstream Green
We were so pleased and thankful to Eagle Newspapers for running this article about Mainstream Green’s reusable shopping bag giveaway for Onondaga County Food Pantry patrons. https://www.eaglenewsonline.com/news/new/2019/12/30/mainstream-green-gives-back/?fbclid=IwAR2z3O7OkYG2ksWi6o-91DZR1VJcUhMQdt3aYD9Gp0pu2S23hvJljZ_iRRE
Mainstream Green in the News: Ways to be Environmentally Friendly over the Holidays
The holidays can be brighter for our planet if people make greener choices in gifts, wrapping, eating and drinking while enjoying their traditions! Having less waste, of energy, food, or materials, can have a beneficial impact. “Our organization’s goal is to encourage people to make very easy lifestyle changes that…
NY Gov. Cuomo proposes ban on single use styrofoam
New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today proposed a new law the prohibiting distribution and use of expanded polystyrene, commonly known as Styrofoam, single-use food containers. The proposal also bans the sale of expanded polystyrene packaging materials known as packing peanuts. Additionally, the bill would authorize the State Department…
Give a kid you love a t-shirt, cleaner air, and a planet to keep living on!
Don’t Idle Away Our Atmosphere! Did you know: We waste 3.8 million gallons of fuel EVERY DAY in America, by letting our cars run while they are stationary? Burning 1 gallon of gasoline in a car engine produces 18.07 lbs of CO2. Carbon traps heat in earth’s atmosphere. If we…
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