Citizens United To Protect The Maurice River - Reducing Household Waste Make-n-Take Workshop: Bath Spa Kit / 4-23-25

Tina Solak, owner of The Refill Market in Haddon Township, will present a workshop on how to reduce household waste; this will be followed by making a bath spa kit to take home which will focus on biodegradable and non-toxic products.

This event is part of CU Maurice River's Watershed Stewards Designation Program. By participating in the workshop, you will learn about using biodegradable personal hygiene products that you can implement in your home to earn points towards either Stream-Friendly or Wildlife-Friendly status.

There are many chemical ingredients in cosmetics, shampoos, and detergents to be avoided, such as phthalates, a class of chemicals which have endocrine-disrupting properties. Phthalates are microscopic chemicals not removed by municipal water treatment systems which aren't sophisticated enough to filter them out.

Tina, a lifelong environmentalist, started The Refill Market in 2021 because she wanted to bring low-waste shopping to her community. In Tina's family of four, she became acutely aware of how much plastic they were tossing into the recycling bin every week.

She was motivated to open a zero-waste store with the knowledge that less than 10% of the plastic going into recycling bins actually gets recycled. Most of it ends up in the ocean, in landfills, or is incinerated. Plastic takes 500 years to break down and even then, it doesn’t biodegrade, it just breaks down into microplastics that continue to pollute our water, soil, and air, harming wildlife and humans.

Date and Time

Wednesday Apr 23, 2025
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT

Wednesday, April 23. 2025
5:30 pm

Location

The Authority
745 Lebanon Road
Millville, NJ 08332

Fees/Admission

Free. Register at Reducing Household Waste Workshop

Website

http://CUMauriceRiver.org

Contact Information

856-300-5331
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Printed courtesy of www.vinelandchamber.org – Contact the Greater Vineland Chamber of Commerce for more information.
2115 S. Delsea Dr., Vineland, NJ 08360 – (856) 691-7400 – info@vinelandchamber.org