Essential Readings

Plastics FAQ

The Beyond Plastics Syllabus

False Solutions

FAQs on Plastics

Stay Informed with Newsletters

• Into the Plasticene: Tracking the Global Growth in Plastic Pollution. Free weekly compilation of articles from Environmental Health News. Sign up at: www.ehn.org/st/subscribe_to_into_the_Plasticene
• Here's a list of organizations with plastic pollution newsletters...

Organizations

Start Walking the Walk

Top 10 things you can do as an individual consumer:

1. Take a pledge... for yourself or your campus
2. Say no to plastic cutlery 🍴
3. Buy clothes/textiles with natural fibers 👖 - Link
4. Reusable shopping bags
5. Choose refillable water bottles, cups
6. Go on a plastic diet! Buy less food/products in plastic packaging and polystyrene
7. Start a family or community garden
8. Support one of these amazing Import Oct 31, 2020
9. Pick up littered plastic, put it into a managed wastestream
10. Challenge your family and friends to do the same! See next section...

Educate Others

• How to Write a Letter to the Editor (BeyondPlastics.org)