☠️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.