MUST-WATCH NEW MOVIE: The Plastic Detox
This eye-opening new documentary is one you must see! Click here to stream it on Netflix and scroll down for more ways to engage including joining our free educational webinar with the filmmaker and several of its stars on May 7, as well as our detailed toolkit to help you host a screening of the film in your community this spring. Let’s get started!
HOST A COMMUNITY SCREENING OF THE PLASTIC DETOX
We invite you to join forces with Beyond Plastics and our partners at OPS (the filmmakers!) to raise awareness of the plastic health crisis and advance effective solutions to address it by hosting a free community screening of the eye-opening new Netflix documentary film, The Plastic Detox. We’ve created a thorough toolkit and lots of resources to help you plan an event that is as well-attended as it is deeply impactful.
WE WROTE A BOOK! Get your copy today.
“The Problem with Plastic: How to Save Ourselves and Our Planet Before It’s Too Late” was just released by The New Press on December 2, 2025. Learn more and order your copy today!
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The chemical industry is attempting to gut the Toxic Substances Control Act, the premier federal law that allows the EPA to regulate and limit hazardous chemicals. Protect your health, your family’s health and our environment by urging your members of Congress to reject these efforts.
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Plastics are complicated—feedstocks, chemical additives, chemical reactions, recycling facilities, technical considerations, health impacts, new technologies, marketing claims, and more. Our Science Director, Trisha Vaidyanathan Ph.D.’s monthly “Ask a Scientist” column explores these complexities in plain English.
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The work that you are doing to reduce plastic packaging and promote zero waste is so inspiring to us that we’ve started the Beyond Plastics Refill Club.
Become a member today to join us in advocacy for reuse and refill while enjoying a host of benefits at each level of Gold, Silver and Bronze membership.
FROM THE GRASSROOTS
Are you part of a faith-based community? Would you like to either start or deepen your work on reducing plastic pollution? Get involved with our growing community of faith-based organizations working to end plastic pollution and take advantage of our resources. Learn more. >>
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Plastics Recycling Is A Big, Fat, LIE
We created this super short claymation video in response to Coca-Cola’s outrageous animated greenwashing video using Bill Nye the Science Guy to try to convince people that plastics recycling is the answer. Reduce, reuse and refill are the only real solutions to the growing plastic pollution crisis.
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BECOME A VOLUNTEER LEADER
Start or join a Beyond Plastics Local Group to make meaningful change in your town, city, county or state.
We’re working with volunteers to help meal delivery programs across the country switch from damaging, single-use disposable plastics to reusable meal delivery trays that save money and protect our environment.
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More than 250 grassroots volunteers joined with state legislators and New Yorkers directly impacted by plastic pollution at a rally to urge the New York state legislature to pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (PRRIA - S1464A Harckham/A1749A Glick).