🔨Learning Bioconstruction with Habitat Recovery Project in LA🌳
Beyond Plastics Appalachia Director, Jess Conard joined Habitat Recovery Project’s inspiring Bioconstruction workshop in Louisiana to learn how to build sustainably, using natural, sustainable, non-toxic materials.
🏭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.
📽️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.
⏸️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.