Environmental Leaders Deliver More Than 13,000 Signatures To Legislative Leaders At the State Capitol
Call on Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart Cousins to Pass Strong Packaging Reduction Bill and Reject Toxic “Chemical Recycling” Ploy Pushed by Chemical Companies
Rally in Albany Calls on the New York Legislature to Pass Packaging Reduction Bill and Bigger Better Bottle Bill This Year
New York state legislators and 58 environmental organizations joined Beyond Plastics and NYPIRG for a jam-packed Rally and Advocacy Day to say, “New York Is Not Disposable.” The events included a rally in Albany, where notables — including Emmy- and Tony-award-winning actress Blythe Danner and National Poetry Slam champion Melissa Lozada-Oliva — joined state legislators to call for the passage of two bills that would greatly reduce plastic pollution statewide: the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act and the Bigger Better Bottle Bill.
New Report Raises Questions About Safety of Using PVC Plastic Pipes for Drinking Water
In a report released today, Beyond Plastics warns of the human health risks of polyvinyl chloride plastic, recommending state and local officials avoid using the material for their communities’ water pipes. The Biden administration and Congress is providing $15 billion to municipalities that need to replace toxic lead service lines, yet the EPA has not offered guidance around what piping materials should be used to prevent homes from swapping one problematic material for another.
Beyond Plastics Names New Senior Advisor and Communications Director
Organization Continues to Expand, Add Leadership as Two New Seasoned Professionals Join Judith Enck’s Team to Combat Plastic
The National Advertising Review Board Slams the American Beverage Association for Its Deceptive ‘Every Bottle Back’ Campaign
Beyond Plastics Released a Video Highlighting These False Claims Last Year
The True Cost of Plastics: New Video Documents East Palestine Residents’ Experiences After Toxic Train Derailment
Beyond Plastics released The True Cost of Plastic, an on the ground video revealing the stories of East Palestine, Ohio, residents in the aftermath of the disastrous Feb. 3, 2023 train derailment.
Beyond Plastics and Hip Hop Caucus Call on EPA to Ban Vinyl Chloride
Today, on the same day that the U.S. Senate is holding a hearing on the toxic train disaster in Ohio, Beyond Plastics and the Hip Hop Caucus launched a petition urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban vinyl chloride, a known human carcinogen used almost exclusively to make polyvinyl chloride plastic, also known as PVC plastic or vinyl.
Beyond Plastics Launches New Policy Resource Center to Advance Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Beyond Plastics issues new Model Packaging Reduction and Recycling policy.
117 Organizations Urge New York Lawmakers to Reject Plastic Burning
117 NYS organizations are urging the New York State Legislature to reject state legislation that promotes the burning of plastics, also known as “chemical recycling.”
HOLIDAY ALERT: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Plastic Gift Cards Are On The Naughty List
As we enter the thick of the holiday giving season, Beyond Plastics has released a new fact sheet detailing the many reasons why brands and retailers should stop producing and selling gift cards made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic.
Leading U.S. Environmental Groups Call on COP to Kick Out Coke
Today the U.S. environmental groups Just-Zero and Beyond Plastics called on the United Nations Climate Change Conference to kick Coke out as a sponsor of COP27. The United Nation’s annual climate conference, known as COP, will be held from November 6 to November 18 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. This is the 27th United Nations climate conference, but the first time Coca Cola, one of the world’s top plastic polluters, is a corporate sponsor.
New Beyond Plastics Guide Helps Dry Cleaners Reduce the Use of Plastic
A new guide from Beyond Plastics offers dry cleaners the information they need to ditch plastic in their operations. The free guide offers practical guidance, including recommendations for reusable garment bags, guidance for calculating potential savings, suggestions for shop front signage, printed items, website and social media messaging, green business listing websites, and more.
Beyond Plastics Releases Free Guide to Help Restaurants Reduce Their Use of Plastics
After years of pandemic-driven take-out orders, many consumers whose drawers are overflowing with plastic straws, disposable plastic cutlery, and single-use plastic packets of ketchup, soy sauce, and mustard are clamoring for less plastic with their food. Fortunately, a new Plastic Free July guide called “Hold The Plastic, Please - A Restaurant’s Guide To Reducing Plastic” published by Beyond Plastics offers restaurants detailed, practical, and inspiring advice for how to reduce the use of plastic in their operations and how to effectively convey those changes to customers, reporters, and the general public.
Ninety-Two Organizations Call on the NYS Climate Action Council to Close Waste Incinerators and Tackle Plastics in Climate Plan
Beyond Plastics and 91 New York state and national organizations submitted extensive written comments to the New York Climate Action Council detailing the ways the Hochul-Delgado Administration must change the way it deals with solid waste, particularly plastics, in its Scoping Plan for the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act. The groups call on the Council to close the state’s ten garbage incinerators, prohibit the burning of plastic through so-called “chemical recycling” and prioritize eliminating single-use plastics. The groups also support expanding the state’s 40-year-old container deposit law (a.k.a. Bottle Bill) to cover more beverage containers.
Beyond Plastics Releases Guide for Meals on Wheels Programs to Switch to Reusable Dishes
Meals on Wheels programs deliver vital services to millions of older adults and adults with disabilities every day by providing nutritious meals and consistent human interaction. A new guide called Choose to Reuse from Beyond Plastics will help meal delivery services transition to serving home-delivered meals in reusable dishes rather than costly and environmentally damaging single-use packaging. The free guide offers practical advice, tools, resources, and case studies and is available at https://www.beyondplastics.org/meals-on-wheels.
Major Packaging Reduction Bills Introduced in New York
New York’s mountains of toxic packaging waste would shrink if the state adopts two new bills that would reduce packaging, improve recycling, and reduce litter.
New Report Reveals that U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate Has Fallen to 5%-6%
The Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics released a new report “The Real Truth About the U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate,” which documented a recycling rate of just 5 to 6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. for 2021.
Prominent Research Professor of Oceanography to Speak at Bennington College
Dr. Kara Lavender Law, Research Professor of Oceanography at Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, MA will give a virtual lecture “A Global Look at Plastic in the Ocean” on Wednesday, May 11 at 7 PM ET.
Beyond Plastics’ Response to the American Chemistry Council’s Poll of NYS Voters’ Views on So-Called “Advanced Recycling”
Beyond Plastics’ response to the American Chemistry Council’s release of its poll of New York State voters’ views on so-called “advanced recycling”.
Beyond Plastics Responds to Coca-Cola & Bill Nye’s Greenwashing Plastics Recycling Video with a New Video Setting the Record Straight
Coca-Cola enlisted Bill Nye, the Science Sellout Guy to create a video designed to mislead the public about plastics recycling. In response, Beyond Plastics released a new claymation video of its own to set the record straight.