Plastics vs Public Health: Moving from Personal Responsibility to Corporate Accountability
Sep
28

Plastics vs Public Health: Moving from Personal Responsibility to Corporate Accountability

Join Island Press for a conversation with Kristina Marusic, author of A New War on Cancer: The Unlikely Heroes Revolutionizing Prevention and Matt Simon, author of A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies for a discussion on plastics and public health. Judith Enck, president of Beyond Plastics and Bennington College professor and former EPA regional administrator, will moderate and add her powerful perspective.

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Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What Can We REALLY Do About Plastic?
Oct
1

Recycling Lies and Plastic Problems: What Can We REALLY Do About Plastic?

Join Beyond Plastics president Judith Enck at an in-person event on Sunday, October 1 at the Southern Vermont Arts Center at 2:00 PM. The event will feature Eve Schaub, the humorist author of Year of No Garbage: Recycling Lies, Plastic Problems, and One Woman's Trashy Journey to Zero Waste, climate author and advocate, Bill McKibben, and Joe Donahue, the host of WAMC / Northeast Public Radio's Round Table.

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Endocrine Disruptors in Plastics: State Policy Options
Oct
3

Endocrine Disruptors in Plastics: State Policy Options

Join us on Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 7pm ET on Zoom for a conversation about endocrine disruptors with Peter Meyers, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental Health Sciences, New York State Senator Pete Harckham, Chair of the New York Senate Environmental Conservation Committee, and Megan Wolff, Ph.D., MPH, Policy Director at Beyond Plastics

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NYC March to End Fossil Fuels
Sep
17

NYC March to End Fossil Fuels

Join Beyond Plastics at the March to End Fossil Fuels on Sept. 17 in NYC . The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. This September, the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York will gather world leaders to commit to phasing out fossil fuels and thousands of people will take to the streets of New York to demand President Biden take bold action to #End Fossil Fuels.

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Plastics: Earth’s Super Polluters
Mar
10

Plastics: Earth’s Super Polluters

As the world shifts from fossil fuel based energy and transportation, plastics are the petrochemical industry's Plan B, with more plastics infrastructure being built every year. Plastic and the climate crisis go hand in hand: global warming emissions from U.S. plastics will surpass emissions from coal in the U.S. by 2030.

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