🌎Earth Month 2025: Find An Event Near You🎉
Grassroots groups and organizations within the Beyond Plastics Local Groups & Affiliates network are hosting events throughout Earth Month to bring awareness to the myriad problems that plastic pollution creates in our bodies, the environment and society. Find an event near you.
❌Banning Single-Use Plastic Bags In Montgomery County, MD 🛍️
Beyond Plastics Montgomery County MD has only been up and running for a year and they’ve already succeeded in achieving a major win - successful passage of a single-use plastic bag ban. Learn more.
🧋Rallying to Reduce Single-Use Packaging in NY!🗽
On January 28, 2025 roughly 200 diverse advocates met in Albany to encourage legislators to support packaging reduction in NY.
🛍️Meeting at The Plastic Bag Store in MA😍
The Plastic Bag Store exhibit at Mass MOCA is a PERFECT place for folks interested in reducing single-use plastics to gather.
🧵Swapping Plastic Produce Bags For Mesh Cotton Bags At Stores In New Hampshire🛍️
The Mesh Bag Mamas are giving shoppers in New Hampshire a choice between single-use plastic produce bags and reusable handmade organic cotton mesh bags.
🧋Reducing Single-Use Plastics, Foodware & Packaging in Newton, MA!🍴
A group of dedicated Green Newton volunteers helped pass a comprehensive single-use plastic reduction ordinance in Newton, MA this fall!
🛍️🥤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!
✌️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.
📱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.