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SUMMARY:Plastic Pollution: Health\, Climate\, and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:The problem with plastic goes way past those ubiquitous and annoying plastic straws and bags. When microplastics are being found in fetal tissue\, the scale of the problem isn’t about personal habits but systems–and that’s the scale of the solutions we need. \nDid we mention that plastics *are* fossil fuels? And that they’re the industry’s hedge to stay relevant as the world moves away from oil and gas for energy? It’s time for plastics to go! \n \nWe are excited to have Eileen Ryan\, leader of Beyond Plastics Greater Boston\, join us for a webinar about plastic pollution. She is on the steering committee of Plastic Free Mass. In addition to her work educating people about the perils of plastics she uses her creative talents to make costumes and art as a climate and social justice activist. Eileen lives in Watertown and is the mother of three grown children and a grandmother of two. \n— \nThanks to everyone who joined us! Eileen sent along the resources below for anyone who wants to delve more into stopping Big Oil from inundating us with plastics. \nPlease contact Eileen at beyondplasticsgreaterboston@gmail.com \nLet’s keep the activity going! \n\n\n\nEDUCATE yourself and your community about plastic pollution. \nWEBSITES\nBeyond Plastics offers excellent courses on plastic pollution. The introductory seven-week course is usually taught three times a year. Beyond Plastics also hosts two-session trainings for starting local groups and affiliates working on ordinances and policies several times a year. \nIn addition to Beyond Plastics\, the other websites here have webinar recordings\, movies\, actions and guidelines for writing ordinances and laws. \nBeyond Plastics: https://www.beyondplastics.org/ \nBreak Free From Plastic: https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/ \nCafeteria Culture: https://www.cafeteriaculture.org/ \nCenter for International Environmental Law: https://www.ciel.org/ \nConservation Law Foundation: https://www.clf.org/ \nEarth Day: https://www.earthday.org/ \nFive Gyres: https://www.5gyres.org/ \nInternational Pollutants Elimination Network: https://www.ipen.org/plastics-treaty/toxic-plastics-reports \nJust Zero: https://just-zero.org/ \nMinderoo Foundation: https://www.minderoo.org/resources/ \nP-SNAP\, Physicians and Scientist Addressing Plastic: https://psnap.org/ \nPublic Employees for Environmental Responsibility: www.PEER.org \nPlastic Pollution Coalition: https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/ \nThe Story of Stuff: https://www.storyofstuff.org/storyofplastic/ \nMOVIES\nThere’s a great film available to watch on Netflix. We hosted several screenings of the Plastic Detox this Spring. I highly recommend it. \n\n\n\nAre plastics and the chemicals they contain decreasing our fertility? An eye-opening new documentary film\, “The Plastic Detox” follows six couples with unexplained infertility as they take steps to reduce their exposure to plastics in the hopes it will help them conceive.\n\nYou can watch the film on Netflix starting TODAY  \n\n\nThis is the link to “We’re All Plastic People Now”\nhttps://www.pbs.org/video/were-all-plastic-people-now-rkg2mq/\n\nMicroplastics Madness: https://www.cafeteriaculture.org/microplastic-madness.html\, link to a film about 5th graders in Red Hook\, NY\, who eventually help get a ban on polystyrene passed in New York State.\n\nhttps://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/\, includes the Story of Plastic – which is an excellent movie – and Coca-Cola links. Great short and longer films.\n\nThe Poison in Us All addresses PFAS contamination.\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-11-08/the-poison-in-us-all\n\n\nThis video shows what’s left when you remove the aluminum shell of a can of Coca-Cola https://youtu.be/uQHFQoFoxvQ?si=tE43-t4TTNELHV4Q\n\nBOOKS\n\nSicker\, Fatter\, Poorer is by Leo Trasande\, https://www.leotrasande.com/sicker-fatter-poorer\n\nA Poison Like No Other by Matt Simon https://islandpress.org/books/poison-no-other#desc.\nTrash Wars by Alex Clapp\, https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexander-clapp/waste-wars/9780316459020/?lens=little-brown\nThicker Than Water: The Quest for Solutions to the Plastic Crisis by Erica Cirino\,https://islandpress.org/books/thicker-water#desc\nThey Poisoned the World by Mariah Blake: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554198/they-poisoned-the-world-by-mariah-blake/\nCount Down by Shanna Swan\, https://www.shannaswan.com/countdown\nThe Problem with Plastic by Judith Enck and the Beyond Plastics staff: https://www.beyondplastics.org/publications/problem-with-plastic-book\n\nThe Why Plastic? series of films from the Why Foundation in Denmark is very good. There are three approximately 1 hour films and many shorts. https://www.thewhy.dk/docuseries/whyplastic
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