Move Past Plastic, MPP
Sponsored by TLC Foundation
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Welcome
“Antonio Gramsci famously
imparted: “Pessimism of the
intellect, optimism of the will.
Tackling SUP Community Resources for
South Central Pennsylvania
Educational Meetings
Next Working Zoom Meeting
Monday, June 17th, at 6:00 - 7:00 pm EST
VIA ZOOM or In-person at
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013 TYIPICALLY We meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. EST to work on the following initiatives. WHAT: WHEN: Monday, July TBA 2024, 6 pm - 7 pm EST WHERE: Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA or ZOOM REGISTER:MPP Current Initiatives
• The proposed AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection o Partners AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Anthropocene Alliance (A2), and a core team of volunteers including: Community Science Fellow, Shashank Anand, a team of three Community Scientists, Chiara Smorada, Marissa Kulkarni, Astrid Lozano-Acosta, and a local community member Karen Green co-founded Pidcock Creek Watershed Association A Conversation of the Impacts of SUP on the Health and the Environment. Partners Bosler Library, South Central PA Climate Realty, Beyond Plastics, US Composting Council, FoCo Trash Mob, US Reduces, BYO, … • Synthetic Playing Surfaces harming our youth, Partnering with Safe and Healthy Playing Fields , Healthy Playing Surfaces & Beyond Plastic reaching out to municipalities • PFAS Campaign o Drinking and wastewater testing reaching out to municipalities and residents with wells, personal avoidance, land spreading of biosolids Partnering with LWVPA, PFAS-action-group. National PFAS Contamination Coalition o Halt the Harm also announced our new PFAS Campaign Accelerator Online Course! o PFAS legislation • Chemical Recycling Plant - partnering with organizations including Beyond Plastics (BP) and Save Our Susquehanna (SOS) to stop Chemical Recycling plants. We are working to stop the construction of the Encina Point Township plant. • Zero Waste PA legislation, Partnering with LWVPA, Upstream, Beyond Plastic, Note the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S.4246-a/A.5322-a) of NY. Do we want to do something like this? • Reusables in restaurants, Partnering with Beyond Plastic, FoCo Flash Mob Panera & Spoons- Sustainability Feedback • BYO - US Reduces for Pennsylvania Partnering with BYO • Reuse in Schools and Colleges/Universities Partnering with Upstream and Cafeteria Culture • Participate in Planning the MPP Sustainable Fashion Show • NO PVC for replacing lead pipes with IRA funds- reaching out to municipalities REPORT: The Perils of PVC Plastic Pipes • Great news to share with you! The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, Senate Bill 3217, and House Resolution 6053 were reintroduced this week by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congressmember Jared Huffman (D-CA-02) Learn more about PFAS and how you canprotect your drinking water and participate
in the PFAS Campaign
Harms from Synthetic Playing Surfaces
PA Constitution - Article 1 Section 27
Natural resources and the public estate.
The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people. .
Celebrate your journey to move away from
single-use plastic (SUP):
• Becoming informed about the entire plastic life cycle • Understand environmental and health harms from single-use plastic, SUP • Recognize recycling and chemical or advanced recycling is a false solution • Realize single-use plastic is more than a litter problem it is a crime of chemical toxicity • Joining together to make changes by supporting campaign partners • Take local civic actions • Support strong Legislation outlined in the Break Free From Plastic Pollution ActTackling SUP Community Resources for
South Central Pennsylvania
Creek Defenders
An environmental stewardship project•
Creek Snapshot
•
Pollution Report Form
•
Pollution Map - Discover the pollutants in your
watershed.
•
Participation Form -
o
Ways to contributing to the Identification of
Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A
Recommendation for Protection. project.
•
5/22/24 MPP News Release Intro. ID Pollutant
Move Past Plastics created the project proposal with the Environmental Protection Network. An AGU Thriving Earth Exchange grant was awarded to further this project. This project will help improve the watershed's health by aggregating siloed data into one location and map. This information and existing qualitative and quantitative data will be analyzed in a final report to conclude further testing, monitoring, and protecting the Conodoguinet Creek watershed. We welcome any research, history, and stories you want to share, including biological, chemical, physical, wildlife, and human health indicators. Please share this with your community groups, organizations, church, friends, and family. JOIN our team to collaborate on this project!!! Below i s a list of ways you and your organization can help. o CLICK on Creek Defenders Participation Form 1. Share the project with your organizations, groups, friends, and family through social and traditional media, email, posting fliers, word of mouth, and general networking. 2. Handle media, traditional or social media (this can happen with in your current organizational structure) 3. Host or co-host public educational opportunities throughout the process 4. Provide data 5. Be interviewed or be an interviewer 6. Contribute to the Goals (See Timeline and Milestones) 7. Outreach to partner organizations to gather more information. 8. Analyze existing data, draw conclusions 9. Draft initial recommendations 10. Share draft recommendations with stakeholders. 11. Sign onto the recommendations written up in the final report & share them with the community 12. Determine the next stage of research. 13. Donate 14. Become a fiscal sponsor 15. Apply for Grants and funding on behalf of MPP 16. Help create a Story Map 17. Help design Phase 2 - Implement Recommendations To learn more, you can visit the following link: How PFAS and microplastics Join forces as a synergistic Threat, The Bay Journal, March 2023A Series of
Conversations on
Single-use
Plastics
Click HERE to see more details about
each conversation.
IN-PERSON & Virtual
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013Begins at 6 -7 p.m.
• What Dangerous Chemicals Are Lurking in Your Drinking Water? Recording • 1 /2 /24 Why Plastic Recycling is a Myth? Recording • 2/6/24 What are Safe Playing Surfaces for Your Children? Recording • 3/ 5/24 What Are Alternatives to Disposables for Take-out and Restaurants? Recording • 4/9/24 What Does Poop, Farms, and Food Have in Common? Recording • 5/22/24 A Conversation on Protecting Our Watershed an introduction to Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection Project How Many Fish Can I Safely Eat? Recording • 6/17/24 A Conversation on Plastic Bags and Bottles • 7/2/24 What Home Renovation Materials Are Safe and Healthy for the Planet? • 8/6/24 Fast Fashion • 9/3/24 Alternatives to Plastic for Serving Snacks and Lunches • 10/1/24 What do Healthy Built Schools Look Like? • 11/6/24 How do we keep plastic and its toxic chemicals from our meals? • 12/3/24 First Annual Single-Use Plastic TriviaMPP's Spring Social Events Sign-up
Note: event registration and payment may be
required for the individual events in addition to MPP
sign-up.
Saturday, July 20th, 8:30 - 12 Conodoguinet Creek Stream Clean- up followed by going out to lunch (individuals pay for themselves) Sign-up Saturday, June 22th, MPP 3 yr. Anniversery Pinchot Gifford 10 a.m. Disc Golfing Bolder Woods Gifford Pinchot State Park, Wellsville, PA 17365 Picnic 12 p.m. Potluck Picnic Lunch Lakeside Trail, Wellsville, PA 17365 1:30 Paddle Stand-up paddle board (2 boards to share Bring your own paddle craft too)Book Club Sign-up
Tuesday, June 25th, 6:30 pm Carlisle, PA, TOTAL GARBAGE An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist . .
Lending a helping hand.
Move Past Plastic, MPP
Sponsored by TLC Foundation
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eiusmod lorem
Welcome
“Antonio Gramsci famously imparted:
“Pessimism of the intellect, optimism
of the will.
Tackling SUP Community Resources for
South Central Pennsylvania
Educational Meetings
Next Working Zoom Meeting
Monday, June 17th, at 6:00 - 7:00 pm EST
VIA ZOOM or In-person at
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013 TYIPICALLY We meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m. EST to work on the following initiatives. WHAT: WHEN: Monday, July TBA 2024, 6 pm - 7 pm EST WHERE: Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA or ZOOM REGISTER:MPP Current Initiatives
• The proposed AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection o Partners AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Anthropocene Alliance (A2), and a core team of volunteers including: Community Science Fellow, Shashank Anand, a team of three Community Scientists, Chiara Smorada, Marissa Kulkarni, Astrid Lozano-Acosta, and a local community member Karen Green co-founded Pidcock Creek Watershed Association A Conversation of the Impacts of SUP on the Health and the Environment. Partners Bosler Library, South Central PA Climate Realty, Beyond Plastics, US Composting Council, FoCo Trash Mob, US Reduces, BYO, … • Synthetic Playing Surfaces harming our youth, Partnering with Safe and Healthy Playing Fields , Healthy Playing Surfaces & Beyond Plastic reaching out to municipalities • PFAS Campaign o Drinking and wastewater testing reaching out to municipalities and residents with wells, personal avoidance, land spreading of biosolids Partnering with LWVPA, PFAS- action-group. National PFAS Contamination Coalition o Halt the Harm also announced our new PFAS Campaign Accelerator Online Course! o PFAS legislation • Chemical Recycling Plant - partnering with organizations including Beyond Plastics (BP) and Save Our Susquehanna (SOS) to stop Chemical Recycling plants. We are working to stop the construction of the Encina Point Township plant. • Zero Waste PA legislation, Partnering with LWVPA, Upstream, Beyond Plastic, Note the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (S.4246-a/A.5322-a) of NY. Do we want to do something like this? • Reusables in restaurants, Partnering with Beyond Plastic, FoCo Flash Mob Panera & Spoons- Sustainability Feedback • BYO - US Reduces for Pennsylvania Partnering with BYO • Reuse in Schools and Colleges/Universities Partnering with Upstream and Cafeteria Culture • Participate in Planning the MPP Sustainable Fashion Show • NO PVC for replacing lead pipes with IRA funds- reaching out to municipalities REPORT: The Perils of PVC Plastic Pipes • Great news to share with you! The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act, Senate Bill 3217, and House Resolution 6053 were reintroduced this week by Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Congressmember Jared Huffman (D-CA-02) Learn more about PFAS and how you canprotect your drinking water and
participate
in the PFAS Campaign
Harms from Synthetic Playing
Surfaces
PA Constitution - Article 1 Section 27
Natural resources and the public estate.
The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all the people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people. .
Celebrate your journey to move
away from single-use plastic (SUP):
• Becoming informed about the entire plastic life cycle • Understand environmental and health harms from single-use plastic, SUP • Recognize recycling and chemical or advanced recycling is a false solution • Realize single-use plastic is more than a litter problem it is a crime of chemical toxicity • Joining together to make changes by supporting campaign partners • Take local civic actions • Support strong Legislation outlined in the Break Free From Plastic Pollution ActTackling SUP Community Resources for
South Central Pennsylvania
Creek Defenders
An environmental stewardship project•
Creek Snapshot
•
Pollution Report Form
•
Pollution Map - Discover the pollutants in
your watershed.
•
Participation Form -
o
Ways to contributing to the Identification of
Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A
Recommendation for Protection. project.
•
5/22/24 MPP News Release Intro. ID
Pollutant
Move Past Plastics created the project proposal with the Environmental Protection Network. An AGU Thriving Earth Exchange grant was awarded to further this project. This project will help improve the watershed's health by aggregating siloed data into one location and map. This information and existing qualitative and quantitative data will be analyzed in a final report to conclude further testing, monitoring, and protecting the Conodoguinet Creek watershed. We welcome any research, history, and stories you want to share, including biological, chemical, physical, wildlife, and human health indicators. Please share this with your community groups, organizations, church, friends, and family. JOIN our team to collaborate on this project!!! Below i s a list of ways you and your organization can help. o CLICK on Creek Defenders Participation Form 1. Share the project with your organizations, groups, friends, and family through social and traditional media, email, posting fliers, word of mouth, and general networking. 2. Handle media, traditional or social media (this can happen with in your current organizational structure) 3. Host or co-host public educational opportunities throughout the process 4. Provide data 5. Be interviewed or be an interviewer 6. Contribute to the Goals (See Timeline and Milestones) 7. Outreach to partner organizations to gather more information. 8. Analyze existing data, draw conclusions 9. Draft initial recommendations 10. Share draft recommendations with stakeholders. 11. Sign onto the recommendations written up in the final report & share them with the community 12. Determine the next stage of research. 13. Donate 14. Become a fiscal sponsor 15. Apply for Grants and funding on behalf of MPP 16. Help create a Story Map 17. Help design Phase 2 - Implement Recommendations To learn more, you can visit the following link: How PFAS and microplastics Join forces as a synergistic Threat, The Bay Journal, March 2023A Series of
Conversations on
Single-use
Plastics
Click HERE to see more details
about each conversation.
IN-PERSON & Virtual
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013Begins at 6 -7 p.m.
• What Dangerous Chemicals Are Lurking in Your Drinking Water? Recording • 1 /2 /24 Why Plastic Recycling is a Myth? Recording • 2/6/24 What are Safe Playing Surfaces for Your Children? Recording • 3/ 5/24 What Are Alternatives to Disposables for Take-out and Restaurants? Recording • 4/9/24 What Does Poop, Farms, and Food Have in Common? Recording • 5/22/24 A Conversation on Protecting Our Watershed an introduction to Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection Project How Many Fish Can I Safely Eat? Recording • 6/17/24 A Conversation on Plastic Bags and Bottles • 7/2/24 What Home Renovation Materials Are Safe and Healthy for the Planet? • 8/6/24 Fast Fashion • 9/3/24 Alternatives to Plastic for Serving Snacks and Lunches • 10/1/24 What do Healthy Built Schools Look Like? • 11/6/24 How do we keep plastic and its toxic chemicals from our meals? • 12/3/24 First Annual Single-Use Plastic TriviaMPP's Spring Social Events Sign-
up
Note: event registration and payment may be
required for the individual events in addition
to MPP sign-up.
Saturday, July 20th, 8:30 - 12 Conodoguinet Creek Stream Clean- up followed by going out to lunch (individuals pay for themselves) Sign-up Saturday, June 22th, MPP 3 yr. Anniversery Pinchot Gifford 10 a.m. Disc Golfing Bolder Woods Gifford Pinchot State Park, Wellsville, PA 17365 Picnic 12 p.m. Potluck Picnic Lunch Lakeside Trail, Wellsville, PA 17365 1:30 Paddle Stand-up paddle board (2 boards to share Bring your own paddle craft too)Book Club Sign-up
Tuesday, June 25th, 6:30 pm Carlisle, PA, TOTAL GARBAGE An investigative narrative that dives into the waste embedded in our daily lives—and shows how individuals and communities are making a real difference for health, prosperity, quality of life and the fight against climate change, by a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist . .
