Join the Cape Plastic Bottle Ban

As a community-based volunteer led and staffed organization on Cape Cod, we are focused on promoting local stewardship of our environment and the long-term sustainability of the Cape. We organize community-building and educational events on the values and benefits of conscious consumption for long-term sustainability.

We are currently engaged in three ongoing community initiatives:

• The Cape Plastic Bottle Ban campaign, a grassroots effort to promote understanding and civic engagement with respect to the adverse consequences of plastic consumption on both human and environmental health. The Ban initiative was announced in March 2018, has been covered by multiple news outlets and as of 2023, we have expanded our efforts to include single-use plastic takeout containers and cutlery. 
• Sustainable Practices Sustainability Film Series, is a documentary screening series started in the fall of 2017. Films are screened at the Chatham Orpheum Theater the first Saturday of each month (September through June) at 9:30 am . 2024-2025 is our eighth season! Details on upcoming films can be found on our Film Series page. 
• Sustainable Practices, a podcast and radio show, is hosted by WOMR. Podcasts are available for listening on-demand under Events on on the WOMR website.

As part of our routine civic engagement we maintain four  Adopt-A-Highway sites and one Adopt-A-Visibility site on highway 6 on Cape Cod. Our areas are cleared of and patrolled for debris by volunteers on a monthly basis between April and November. Our sites are located between exits 10 and 12 on both the eastbound and westbound lanes of the highway and include the Eastham Rotary, where highway 6A and 6 merge.