💌A Love Letter To Our Local Groups & Affiliates🙏
As we look ahead to 2025, we want to share our sincere appreciation for you and all you do. It’s critical to build and strengthen our community of people working to put planet and people over plastic.
🎓1,000+ Advocates Trained In The U.S.!🥳
Since February 2022, we have held 11 virtual training sessions and graduated over ONE THOUSAND activists from all over the country as effective advocates for legislative change on plastics in their communities.
🏭Installing Air Monitors to Protect Residents’ Health in OH🫁
In early September 2024, Beyond Plastics' Appalachia Director, Jess Conard, and our Youngstown, OH affiliate, SOBE Concerned Citizens joined forces with Physicians for Social Responsibility - PA to install much-needed air monitors throughout the community.
We’ve Hit 150 Local Groups + Affiliates in 40 States!🎉
Launched in February 2022, Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates network is now 150 organizations strong!
🛍️Meeting at The Plastic Bag Store in MA😍
The Plastic Bag Store exhibit at Mass MOCA is a PERFECT place for folks interested in reducing single-use plastics to gather.
🪚Preventing Microplastics Contamination From Construction Dust in NJ🛑
Monmouth Beach, NJ just passed an ordinance requiring contractors to contain and clean up daily all table sawing dust including toxic plastics from manufactured lumber such as TREX, PVC piping and vinyl siding.
🌱 Working To Stop Cornell University from Installing Artificial Turf in NY 🚫
Our affiliate, Zero Waste Ithaca is working hard to convince Cornell University to halt its plan to install new artificial turf fields that would create plastic pollution, spreads toxins, and increase the risk of injury.
🌎Earth Day 2024: Planet vs. Plastics🥤
Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates fully embraced the global theme of Earth Day 2024 - “Planet vs. Plastics”. See what groups got up to on April 22 to raise awareness and get more people involved in ending plastic pollution.
✌️Chasing Off a Polluting “Chemical Recycling” Plant in PA 🚫
Led by local group, Save Our Susquehanna, residents and allies in Port Township, PA recently succeeded in convincing Houston-based company Encina to drop its proposal to build a polluting and problematic “chemical recycling” facility.
📽️See “Blue Vinyl” From Coast To Coast!🍿
Beyond Plastics volunteers are hosting more than 35 screenings of the award-winning documentary film, “Blue Vinyl” in 21 states this Earth Month! Find one near you or how to watch in your own home.
🛑Stopping Synturf in Maryland🌿
Grassroots advocates in Maryland succeeded in convincing Howard County to scrap plans to convert natural turn fields to synthetic turf! Learn more and get resources.
🚫Overturning Montana’s “Ban on Bans”⚖️
Working with the Cottonwood Environmental Law Center, Beyond Plastics volunteers successfully overturned the first portion of Montana’s statewide ban on single-use plastic bans.
👏Grassroots Advocates Flex Their Muscles to Help BAN Vinyl Chloride 💪🏽
Members of Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates have turned out in force to push the EPA to ban toxic vinyl chloride. Learn more and find out how you can get in on the action.
⏸️Pressing Pause on a Polluting Proposed Pyrolysis Plant in Youngstown, Ohio☠️
After years of advocating in opposition to the proposed SOBE Energy Solutions plant, the community of Youngstown, Ohio recently succeeded in convincing the City Council to pass a 12-month moratorium on pyrolysis of tires, tire derived chips, plastic, and electronic waste.
🥳Ain’t No Party like a POSTCARD Party!📫
Members and friends of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston gleefully gathered at First Parish in Watertown, Massachusetts on January 15 for a legislative postcard party in support of plastic pollution reduction legislation!
💧Preventing 6 Acres of Toxic Plastic Grass from Poisoning the Rahway River Watershed & Schoolyard in New Jersey ☣️
Citizen advocates succeeded in blocking a multi-billion dollar installation of six acres of toxic artificial turf in New Jersey.
🧵Swapping Plastic Produce Bags For Mesh Cotton Bags At Stores In New Hampshire🛍️
The Mesh Bag Mamas are giving shoppers in New Hampshire a choice between single-use plastic produce bags and reusable handmade organic cotton mesh bags.
🧋Reducing Single-Use Plastics, Foodware & Packaging in Newton, MA!🍴
A group of dedicated Green Newton volunteers helped pass a comprehensive single-use plastic reduction ordinance in Newton, MA this fall!
🛢️Marching to End to Fossil Fuels in NYC🚶🏿🚶♀️
More than 200 dedicated Beyond Plastics’ volunteers, supporters, and staff members met up in midtown Manhattan for the March to End Fossil Fuels in September 2023.
🛍️🥤Banning Single-Use Plastic Bags, Polystyrene & Making Straws Available Upon Request in Upper Moreland, PA! 🗳️
Beyond Plastics volunteer, Suzette Munley helped her town, Upper Moreland, PA pass a single-use plastic and polystyrene ban that makes plastic straws available upon request only, and adds a 10-cent mandatory fee for paper bags!