![🛍️🥤Banning Single-Use Plastic Bags, Polystyrene & Making Straws Available Upon Request in Upper Moreland, PA! 🗳️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1693509119167-3NUCYBO3VT452T4NJDM5/bag+ban.png)
🛍️🥤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!🏛️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1690938141710-3UHBSRGMJDFD2K5AQQ89/Photo%2BJul%2B01%2B2023%252C%2B6%2B01%2B44%2BPM.jpg)
🇺🇸 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!🎉](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1689624676022-K54ARMI3ULCMJ4EGPJRG/LGA+100+Groups+Announcement.png)
💯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. 🇺🇸](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1688760084020-WYCEJRQ31QSJ4F2ELZZI/PLASTIC+IS+HAZARDOUS+PFJ+IG+%281080+x+1080%29-1.png)
🗓️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☠️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1687287088644-YBF3RDLYVUV47XOFQVHH/yayoi.jpg)
✊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🚰](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1683828184516-3USWXWNQ2LIKMOE329TQ/1.png)
✌️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💚](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1683826222466-S41GPRZTX84ICCJ5CX41/XRBoston-InLoveAndRage-EarthDay2023+%2895%29.jpg)
🌎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!🗑️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1682435137994-KSBIKBT7E07AUKD4A0HS/28a8ae7f-e2cd-4f72-88a2-ae9e021849b1.jpg)
📘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!
![✍️Harnessing the Power of the Postcard📮](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1679958699542-YZV9JEX1F754QWIR1KGB/PlasticPollutionPostcards230325-0163.jpg)
![🥾No Trace Trails - a 2,650-Mile Survey of Trash & Microplastics on the Pacific Crest Trail🥤](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1679433665748-4VCCFJBAO5BJ3VDKOKWI/notrace2.png)
🥾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🛢️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1678120162883-SRI6RBGNVXKD3EU5H49E/Port-Neches.jpeg)
☠️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📦](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1675792310519-1FJH5DD75K2XZCN72VLJ/450.jpg)
📱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!🌏](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674759919805-24G9KGJKEXZTOQSBYEUS/Sacramento-Reduces-Waste-sacramentoreduces-%25E2%2580%25A2-Instagram-photos-and-videos.jpg)
✊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🗽](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674759819698-4BYCPL56UROKOCBBQECF/copout-medium%2B%25281%2529.jpg)
📣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🥤](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674759866248-AWLRP5MX3YK0MRAV5PEQ/halloween2.jpg)
👻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🫙](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674759980687-VQB1TZ0NGCPYFZIL8WES/Seattle%252BTJs2.jpg)
🔙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◀️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674760033583-BNXUCCU9LZDY4U8MGA6L/IMG_6251.jpg)
🗑️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🛥️](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eda91260bbb7e7a4bf528d8/1674844112766-4X2DVAW2VPINV16J8FWC/IMG_20220215_083038100.jpg)
☢️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.