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The Problem With Plastics & What We Can Do

Join the Bedford Garden Club and speakers Judith Enck and Sherri “Sam” Mason, Ph.D on Wednesday, March 24th at 10:00 AM ET for a free Zoom talk about plastic pollution and what you can do to help.

Click here to register now to receive the Zoom Invitation via email the week of the webinar.

Topics will include:

  • Microplastics and drinking water

  • Ocean plastics

  • Ethane cracker plants

  • Plastics and climate change

  • Recycling is not an option

  • Why we MUST eliminate single-use disposable plastic

  • What you can do

About the speakers:

Judith Enck, Founder and President of Beyond Plastics whose mission is to end plastic
pollution through education, advocacy, and institutional change. Former EPA Region 2
Regional Administrator, appointed by President Obama, and former Deputy Secretary
for the Environment in the New York Governor’s Office.

Sherri “Sam” Mason, Ph.D, former Chair, Department of Geology & Environmental
Sciences, SUNY-Fredonia where she was among the first to study the prevalence and
impact of plastic pollution within freshwater ecosystems. Her work formed the basis for
the 2015 Microbeads-Free Water Act. Recipient of Heinz Award in Public Policy in 2018.
Currently she is Sustainability Coordinator at Penn State Behrend.

This event is sponsored by Bedford Garden Club.

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