Kitchen scraps, yard waste, and other materials can be recycled into “black gold”, the gardener’s nickname for nutrient dense compost. Come visit the Growing Hope Urban Farm to learn about our composting system and systems you can build and maintain at home. If the weather is good, you can help us turn our piles to...
✅ Bring Your Own T-shirt for Screen Printing! Come celebrate the end of Ann Arbor’s Zero Waste Challenge with an evening of interactive, waste-reducing fun and learning. Starting at 5:00pm, we’ll have interactive demos to show you how to reduce waste at home, learn about compost, hands on repair demos including a mobile bike repair...
We say we "throw it away", but there is no such place as “away”… Live Zero Waste and The Washtenaw Zero Waste Coalition are inviting you to join us on the second annual Trash Talk Tour! The tour will feature a number of events and a self paced tour of Ann Arbor's zero waste economy!...
The Story of Plastic, the award-winning documentary, will be made available for free streaming for all Park Slope Food Coop members between July 6 and July 20. This film presents a cohesive timeline of how we got to our current global plastic pollution crisis, and how the oil and gas industry has successfully manipulated the...
Come in person to Jody Reiss’ apartment (RSVP for Address) to chat in person with Judith, pose questions on plastics and grassroots activism, and receive a resounding pep talk in preparation for our rally the next day. Contact host Jody Reiss ( ailanthis@gmail.com ) for more information.
Location: DEC Region 2 Headquarters (47-40 21st Street, Long Island City)Nearby Subways: Court Sq – 23rd St ( 7 E M G ), Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Ave ( 7 ), 21st Street – Van Alst ( G ). Nearly two years after the statewide plastic bag ban took effect, many stores – especially in NYC – continue...
We can achieve a world without plastic pollution but we need to build a bigger, more powerful grassroots movement to do it. How can you help? That’s easy! Just register for the upcoming Beyond Plastics Trainings for Local Groups and Affiliates to learn practical and powerful ways to end plastic pollution and engage your larger...
The next meeting will be in-person on Sunday, Sept 10. All are welcome. Email beyondplasticsbklyn@gmail.com for for info.
Join Beyond Plastics at the March to End Fossil Fuels on Sept. 17 in NYC The United Nations is calling on world leaders to take real steps to lead us off fossil fuels to protect people and the planet. This September, the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York will gather world leaders to commit...
Join Beyond Plastics Brooklyn at our table at the Atlantic Antic Festival on Oct 1, noon-6pm. Contact Jody Reiss (ailanthis@gmail.com) for details.
For the zoom link, contact beyondplasticsbklyn@gmail.com.
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