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
We meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30 p.m.
to work on the following initiatives.
Current Initiatives
• The proposed AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection aims to conduct a review, identifying all current data and research for soil, biosolid, wildlife, and surface, ground, and well water for the following chemicals: N, P, O, Temperature, turbidity, conductivity, bacteria, Novel Entities (plastic, micro and nano plastic), Heavy Metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Per and Polyflouralalky Substances (PFAS), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), Synthetic Playing Surfaces, Polychlorinated DiBenzol-P dioxin (PCDD), Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) • We will determine point and nonpoint source pollutants and recommend further testing, monitoring, and remediation. Partners: Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), POWR Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds Resources, Conodoguinet 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 & Beyond Plastic reaching out to municipalities • PFAS drinking and wastewater testing reaching out to municipalities and residents with wells, personal avoidance, land spreading of biosolids • Halt the Harm also announced our new PFAS Campaign Accelerator Online Course! • PFAS legislation Partnering with LWVPA, PFAS-action-group. • Point, PA 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
IN-PERSON & Virtual
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013A Series of Conversations on Single-use
Plastics Click HERE to see more details
about each conversation.
Begins 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/TBA/24 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? • 6/17/24 Finding Sustainable Clothes • 7/2/24 What Home Renovation Materials Are Safe and Healthy for the Planet? • 8/6/24 What am I? • 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.
Monday ,April 22nd 2 pm or 6:30 pm Common Ground in your area. I'm pleased to be able to inform you that the film is coming to Camp Hill's AMC Classic Camp Hill 12 location in a special Earth Day edition on 4/22. Advance tickets and more info will be available on the theater's website this coming Wednesday, April 10. Sign-up. Saturday, 4 27th 7:00-10:00pm at the Barn’ located at The Barn at Creek’s Bend for our Spring Music Series featuring Not Quite Rite from (purchase your own tickets in addition to MPP’s sign- up) May (TBA) 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? Saturday, May 18th, 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
© Lorem ipsum dolor sit Nulla in mollit pariatur in, est ut dolor eu
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
We meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6:30
p.m. to work on the following initiatives.
Current Initiatives
• The proposed AGU Thriving Earth Exchange project, Identification of Pollutants in the Conodoguinet Creek Watershed: A Recommendation for Protection aims to conduct a review, identifying all current data and research for soil, biosolid, wildlife, and surface, ground, and well water for the following chemicals: N, P, O, Temperature, turbidity, conductivity, bacteria, Novel Entities (plastic, micro and nano plastic), Heavy Metals, Persistent Organic Pollutants, Per and Polyflouralalky Substances (PFAS), Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH), Synthetic Playing Surfaces, Polychlorinated DiBenzol-P dioxin (PCDD), Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs), Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) • We will determine point and nonpoint source pollutants and recommend further testing, monitoring, and remediation. Partners: Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), POWR Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds Resources, Conodoguinet 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 & Beyond Plastic reaching out to municipalities • PFAS drinking and wastewater testing reaching out to municipalities and residents with wells, personal avoidance, land spreading of biosolids • Halt the Harm also announced our new PFAS Campaign Accelerator Online Course! • PFAS legislation Partnering with LWVPA, PFAS-action-group. • Point, PA 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
IN-PERSON & Virtual
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W High St, Carlisle, PA 17013A Series of Conversations on
Single-use Plastics Click HERE to
see more details about each
conversation.
Begins 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/TBA/24 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? • 6/17/24 Finding Sustainable Clothes • 7/2/24 What Home Renovation Materials Are Safe and Healthy for the Planet? • 8/6/24 What am I? • 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.
Monday ,April 22nd 2 pm or 6:30 pm Common Ground in your area. I'm pleased to be able to inform you that the film is coming to Camp Hill's AMC Classic Camp Hill 12 location in a special Earth Day edition on 4/22. Advance tickets and more info will be available on the theater's website this coming Wednesday, April 10. Sign-up. Saturday, 4 27th 7:00-10:00pm at the Barn’ located at The Barn at Creek’s Bend for our Spring Music Series featuring Not Quite Rite from (purchase your own tickets in addition to MPP’s sign- up) May (TBA) 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? Saturday, May 18th, 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 . .
