Bans on single-use bags, straws, polystyrene and Skip the Stuff laws — the plastics that make up roughly 40% of all plastic waste.
pforever.org recommends Beyond Plastics as another strong resource to rely on for the truth about what is happening with plastics in our waste streams.
This site traces what plastic has already done to your body. Beyond Plastics works upstream, where your score is decided: production, packaging, disposal and the laws that permit all three. You need both ends of the evidence chain.
Beyond Plastics is a nationwide project based at Bennington College, founded and led by Judith Enck, a former Regional Administrator at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Deputy Secretary for the Environment in the New York Governor's Office.
Its mission is to end plastic pollution everywhere. It pairs decades of environmental policy expertise with the energy of grassroots advocates, students and community groups, pushing for the institutional, economic and societal changes that individual swaps alone can never deliver.
The organization educates the media, policymakers and the public on the plastic pollution crisis; trains the next generation of anti-plastics leaders through Judith Enck's Beyond Plastic Pollution course at Bennington; publishes investigative reports on industry claims; and helps communities block new plastic manufacturing and plastic-burning facilities. Its book, The Problem with Plastic, is written to be handed directly to legislators.
Bans on single-use bags, straws, polystyrene and Skip the Stuff laws — the plastics that make up roughly 40% of all plastic waste.
Extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws that make the companies making the packaging pay for its cleanup, not your municipality.
Blocking new plastics manufacturing and plastic-burning facilities before they are built. The tap, not the spoon.
Plastic production and disposal disproportionately burden communities of color. Beyond Plastics organizes in solidarity with those communities.