Monthly Meeting of the Friends of the Malden River

Agenda items: plastic-free Massachusetts, spring events, Malden River Works Waterfront Park

  Hi folks,

Please join us next Monday, 12/11 at Cambridge Health Alliance in the Community Room A/B/C.

Use the main entrance and the community room is immediately to your left after you exit the lobby.

This coming Monday, 12/11, Sushant Bajracharya of Mystic River Watershed Association will join us to speak about the Mystic Stormwater Collaborative and Resident Adopt-A-Storm Drain program. This Adopt a Drain program will help keep the Malden River clean from street litter and leaves that accumulate around catch basins/street storm drains. This trash and organic waste flow directly into the Malden River and other local water bodies. We can make a difference as residents with easy actions. Sushant is program director of Trash Free Mystic and will inform us of all the initiatives in our watershed and of the Malden River Trash Trap that was installed in 2021.

Also, here are a couple of quick action items (Thank you for clicking on the links):

CLEANAIR Survey: Please click on this link [https://mysticriver.org/cleanair] to find out more and to fill out a 5-minute community survey. Part of the CLEANAIR study is focused on learning more about community members’ understanding of air quality and identifying locations for short term air quality monitoring. To help achieve this, we have created a community survey for residents 16 and above who live, work, or attend school in East Boston, Everett, Malden, and Charlestown. Please share this with friends and family of these four cities. This link has the survey translated into six languages. Thank you for taking the time.

One more thing: As part of the Massachusetts Zero Waste Caucus, there is a legislative bill on the table: “Skip the Small Stuff”. Once this bill is signed into law, Skip The Stuff requires that food establishments only give single-use foodware upon request by customers. Specifically, it seeks to limit the waste associated with unused cutlery, condiments, plates, napkins, etc, while still giving customers the option to get these goods should they need it. Here is a link for more information and to send an email to the hearing committee: https://www.reusablenewengland.com/skipthestuffemail

Thank you and the Friends of the Malden River are grateful for your work towards strengthening our community! We are planning spring activities! Let us know if you have any ideas or questions!

Sincerely,

Karen Buck

617-460-6080