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An organic lawn care demonstration in Stoneham Center.

TURI awarded $75,000 in community grants to five Massachusetts community organizations to educate the public about safer products and methods to avoid the negative health effects of toxic chemicals. The organizations are Montachusett Opportunity Council, Fitchburg, Norfolk County 7, Clean Water Action Fund, Boston; Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health and Mill City Grows, Lowell.

Read about each project in the press release.

Did You Know?

• TURI hosted the "Toxics Use Reduction Community Conference: Sharing Successes and Networking." Recipients of past grants presented successful projects to help teach others how they can do the same.Learn more and download presentation materials.

• Our Community Tip Sheets are now available in Vietnamese, Spanish, and Portuguese, please follow the links on the right to download.

• TURI continues to award grants to dry cleaners who eliminate their use of the solvent perchloroethylene (or perc) and switch to professional wet cleaning. Find out more.