‘Skip the Stuff’ Law Is a Win for All and the Environment

Across New Jersey, takeout orders come with a side of waste – plastic utensils and condiment packets we never use. Those small items add up quickly, often spilling into our parks and waterways.

Each year, volunteers comb New Jersey’s beaches and consistently find that plastic dominates what’s left behind. In recent cleanups, more than 80 percent of all debris collected was plastic, much of it single-use items like food wrappers, bottle caps and various takeout waste.