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.”
Who is MPP and what do we do?
Move Past Plastic (MPP) is a grassroots organization in central
Pennsylvania sponsored by TLC Foundation, founded June 7th, 2021.
We are a conglomeration of individuals, businesses, and organizations.
We meet on the 3rd Monday of the month at 6p.m.
Mission:
To help communities understand the complexities of the single-use plastic
(SUP) crisis and move toward a regenerative economy by offering
resources, education, and support to businesses and municipal
governance to change legislation, and ordinances, use SUP alternatives
and decrease consumption and waste.
Vision:
Promote moving away from single use plastics and toward a regenerative,
circular economy that has a mutualistic relationship with nature and a
respect for all people.
What does it mean to subscribe to be
a member or Partner?
A member is an individual that wants to be informed about the single use
plastic (SUP) crisis.
You are welcome to attend monthly meetings, and contribute to solving
this problem in any capacity you are able. Your commitment can be
learning more about the problem from visiting this site and receiving
emails and resources from Move Past Plastic. It can include signing
petitions or being involved in some one or more of the organizational
groups: Legislative, Public Awareness/Education, or Research.
We respect your right to enjoy nature, your families, jobs and other life
responsibilities. MPP is a NO judgement zone. We humbly accept and
are grateful for contributions you can make.
Benefits of being a member
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Receive MPP meetings times and locations
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Availability of resources, education, and networking
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Receive and contribute to the newsletter
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Receive emails related to SUPs and supporting a regenerative
economy
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Receive information about ways you can act. i.e., petitions, letters to
the editor, writing legislation, writing to legislators, education outreach,
research, etc.
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Ability to request presentations
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Participate in and influence MPP initiatives
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Opportunity to fund MPP initiatives
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Opportunity to be a fiscal sponsor
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Thank You, Business/organization name on the website as a partner
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Your hyperlinked logo on all initiatives your co-host
Optional
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Your Business/organization name is hyperlinked to go straight to your
website
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Your organization's/company's hyperlinked logo will be added to the
MPP website
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Brief Description of your organization (<100 words)
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Your Business/Organization Logo on MPP’s opening page hyperlinked
to your Business/Organization's Website
We welcome any individual to become a member, or business, or
organization to become a Partner and contribute in any capacity
you are able.
Questions/Concerns/Likes
717-713-5890
Fund Raiser for MPP
Art by Janak Narayan
MMP's three main working groups are: Legislation, Public
Awareness/Education, and Research. We place an emphasis on acting
locally to support and promote the efforts of many partnering
organizations and businesses.
MPP supports the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act which supports
extended producer responsibility. It is important to network with
companies who use alternatives to plastic packing and products. It is
more important to move away from a disposable, consumption base
economy to a regenerative, circular economy by encouraging the passing
of new legislation that supports infrastructure, design, and funding for
products that can be reused, repaired, and recycled.
We focus on issues for creating social and environmental justice. We give
people and groups a forum to join together to make connections and build
a community to address the Single Use Plastic (SUP) crisis.
Learn more about PFAS and how you can
protect your drinking water. Participate in
the PFAS Campaign.
Ensure PFAS free Drinking Water
on 11/2/22 at 12-1 pm or 7-8 pm EST
(Virtual via Zoom)
I invite you to learn more about ensuring safe drinking water from
per and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The EPA has
recognized this classification of persistent hazardous chemicals.
Register for Ensure PFAS free Drinking Water on 11/10/22 at 12
pm or 7 pm (Virtual via Zoom)
PFAS compounds are
pervasive in our society.
They are found in our
bodies, household dust, clothing, cosmetics, and many other
products we use daily and in drinking water.
Learn about PFAS and how to engage your municipality in testing
their drinking water for these toxic bioaccumulating chemicals.
Whether you are a municipal or elected leader, water specialist,
environmentalist, or citizen, you will be introduced to the
information you need to test your drinking water for PFAS or to
request your municipality test the community's drinking water for
PFAS. You will be introduced to three toolkits.
The Engaging Municipalities in the PFAS Testing Toolkit - which
will include:
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History
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Define and share their uses
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Health and Environmental Harms
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Regulations or lack thereof
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Potential PFAS Contamination Sites Maps for your community
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Laboratory Testing: EPA and DEP Certified Labs and How to
Test for PFAS
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How to Avoid Sources of PFAS
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At-home drinking water filtration
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How to avoid, limit, and test for PFAS in drinking water.
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Solutions for PFAS contamination include UCMR5.
PFAS Talking Points Toolkit - Provides information on topics of
concern around PFAS: military sites, health, biosolids, etc.
Media Toolkit - Outlines how to locate your legislators, phone
scripts, social posts, and how to write letters to the editor,
If you want to learn more and have support with testing your
water for PFAS and cannot attend a meeting, please email Tamela
Trussell at movepastplastic@gmail.com to request a personal
presentation that fits your schedule.
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.
Is this being
occuring?
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