Trash Free Waters Partnership Meeting
Thursday, March 16th at 9:00 AM
65 West 11th Street, Room B500 New York, NY 10011
The New School community is invited to join the next Trash Free Waters Partnership Meeting to hear from local experts about ongoing efforts to reduce plastic debris in our waterways, including presentations by New School faculty Barent Roth and Laura Sansone.
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and networking - please BYO cup!
9:30 - 12:30 Meeting (full agenda in progress)
1:00 After-meeting “Dutch treat” lunch
The TFW Partnership NY/NJ, formerly led by EPA Region 2, is a collaborative effort across public, private, & nonprofit sectors to reduce plastic debris in all waterbodies. TFW is made up of over 100 organizations, including government agencies (municipal, state, federal, international), not for profits, for profits, and higher education, with 6 active workgroups: bags, bottles, microplastics, to-go boxes, straws, messaging, and a Steering Group. The TFW program incorporates a strategic approach to support land-based aquatic trash prevention and reduction initiatives through the actions of public, private, and nonprofit stakeholders in the form of the NJ/NY TFW Partnership. The TFW program serves as a catalyst for issue analysis, facilitated dialogue, strategic planning, and program implementation, and the Partnership places a strong emphasis on stakeholder collaboration; specifically, it seeks to help states, municipalities, academia, NGOs, and businesses work together to develop innovative aquatic trash reduction strategies and projects in targeted geographic areas, approaching zero-loading of trash into Regional waters by 2025.
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