🧋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!
🇺🇸 Beyond Plastics Groups & Affiliates Host 27 Events Across the Country, Calling for Plastics Reduction & Policy Change!🏛️
Check out the 27 Plastic Free July events that Beyond Plastics’ Local Groups and Affiliates held in 16 states to call for change!
💯We’ve Hit 100 Local Groups & Affiliates!🎉
Launched in February 2022, Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates network is now 100 organizations strong!
🗓️Plastic Free July Events Across The U.S. 🇺🇸
This Plastic Free July, check out what Beyond Plastics’ Local Groups and Affiliates are up to and find an event near you.
✊Fighting to Stop Toxic, Polluting Artificial Turf in Ithaca, NY☠️
Zero Waste Ithaca is working hard to prevent Ithaca College from installing dangerous, polluting artificial turf including circulating a student-led petition, holding a rapid response rally, and hosting a call relay.
✌️Peace, Love & Less Single-Use Plastic🚰
✌️Beyond Plastics New Paltz scored a major victory for the environment and music-lovers by working hard to convince Bethel Woods to change its policy to allow patrons to bring and use refillable water bottles.
🌎A Bounty Of Earth Day 2023 Events💚
🌎Beyond Plastics Local Groups and Affiliates started off the tabling season strong with Earth Day showings across the country.💚Check out their awesome events.
📘The Year Of No Garbage - Great New Book By A Local Activist!🗑️
Beyond Plastics activist and noted author and humorist, Eve Schaub has published a great read, Year of No Garbage - get your copy today!
🥾No Trace Trails - a 2,650-Mile Survey of Trash & Microplastics on the Pacific Crest Trail🥤
In March 2023, two scientists, Dr. Victoria McGruer and Macy Gustavus, are embarking on a 2,650-mile hike to survey trash and microplastics on the Pacific Crest Trail. The project will take the better part of six months to complete and will provide much-needed information about trash and microplastics in wilderness ecosystems.
☠️In the “Belly of the Beast” - A Toxic Tour of Port Arthur, TX with Activist John Beard Jr🛢️
In January 2023, Beyond Plastics community organizer, Christina Dubin met Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) founder, president, and executive director John Beard Jr. for a “Toxic Tour” of what he refers to as “the belly of the beast” of the petrochemical industry.
📱Sticking, Snapping, and Sharing to Help Push Corporations to Improve Packaging📦
Brooklyn, NY-based multidisciplinary artist, Eric Corriel’s 450YRS project gives consumers a fun and easy way to help pressure corporations to do better using stickers, your phone, and social media.
✊Join The Growing BYO (Bring Your Own) Movement With US Reduces!🌏
We're excited to highlight our affiliates Zero Waste Ithaca and Sacramento Reduces' grassroots BYO container outreach program to reduce food packaging waste.
📣Calling Out Climate Greenwashing at the COPOUT27 Protest in NYC🗽
Beyond Plastics Greater Boston joined forces with our affiliate, WasteNot/350NYC to protest the outrageous hypocrisy of the UN's decision to allow Coca-Cola—one of the world's top corporate plastic polluters-to serve as a major sponsor of the international climate change summit.
👻Haunted By Plastic Waste in East Hampton, NY🥤
This Halloween, Beyond Plastics supporter, Gloria’s decorations were truly terrifying. She created a "plastic ocean on land" using a tiny fraction of the plastic in her home and paired her "haunted by plastic" house with information to educate trick-or-treaters and passersby.
🔙Taking Plastic Packaging Back To The Store For Plastic Free July🫙
In honor of Plastic Free July 2022, Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates hosted "Plastic Take-Backs," where they returned plastic packaging to major grocery chains across the country and called on CEOs to commit to phasing out single-use plastic packaging.
🗑️Taking Back Plastic Waste In Mankato, MN◀️
Beyond Plastics Greater Mankato, MN hosted a very successful plastic trash collection and take-back featuring live music and free icecream.
☢️The Toxics Tour - A Trip Through the Ohio River Valley🛥️
Beyond Plastics’ Organizing Director took a “toxics tour” of the Ohio River Valley where the boom in hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (a.k.a. “fracking”) is driving an ongoing massive build-out of petrochemical infrastructure.