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.
160+ Environmental and Community Organizations, Recycling Businesses Call on NYS Assembly and Senate To Reject Flawed Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation in State Budget
A coalition of more than 160 environmental and community organizations and recycling businesses are calling on the NYS Assembly and Senate to reject Extended Producer Responsibility proposals in the state budget.
Gov. Murphy Signs Recycled Content for Plastics Bill Into Law
NJ Governor Phil Murphy has signed the Recycled Content Bill into law! This will make New Jersey the East Coast leader and help reduce virgin plastic use.
NJ Bill To Increase Post-Consumer Recycled Content for Plastics Passes!
The Recycled Content Bill will make New Jersey the East Coast leader and help reduce virgin plastic use.
REPORT: Plastics To Outpace Coal In Driving Climate Change
Beyond Plastics’new report: The New Coal: Plastics & Climate Change provides a groundbreaking analysis of the U.S. plastics industry’s significant, yet rarely acknowledged contributions to the climate crisis.
“Recycle” By Mail Is A Major Climate Fail
New fact sheet exposes the hidden climate and other environmental impacts of mail-back “recycling” schemes for poorly designed plastic items and packaging.
National Parks Should Go Plastic-Free
Beyond Plastics joins PEER and GreenLatinos in urging the reversal of a Trump admin. action that prevents our National Parks from banning the sale of single-use plastic water bottles.
Global Coalition Calls on Amazon to Shift to Plastic-Free, Reusable Packaging As It Has In India
A group of 120+ organizations from around the globe is calling on Amazon to shift away from single-use plastic packaging to lighten its negative impact on the climate crisis, ocean pollution and more.
250+ Organizations Urge Pres. Biden & Congress to Invest $1.3 Billion in Stimulus and Funding Bills to Address the Plastic Pollution Crisis and its Environmental Justice Impacts
250+ Organizations Have Issued a New Report Urging President Biden and Congress to Invest $1.3 Billion in Congressional Stimulus and Funding Bills to Address the Plastic Pollution Crisis and its Environmental Justice Impacts
Beyond Plastics’ Statement on the Events of January 6, 2021
There is no mistaking that what happened in the United States Capitol on January 6th was intended to impose an extreme, anti-democratic ideology over the results of a legitimate democratic election. It was years in the making and it will take years of hard work to address.
550 Groups Ask Biden to Solve Plastic Pollution Crisis With 8 Executive Actions
A coalition of more than 550 community and conservation organizations today released its Presidential Plastics Action Plan, urging President-elect Joe Biden to take eight key executive actions to solve the plastic pollution crisis.
Environmental Leaders Cheer Gov. Murphy’s Signature on the Strongest Single-Use Waste Ban Bill in the Nation
A coalition of environmental groups applauded Gov. Murphy’s signature today of A1978/S864, now the strongest law in the country to reduce single-use waste to clean up our communities and the environment.