Move Past Plastic, MPP
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MPP’s 2021
Accomplishments
MPP joined BFFP’s Actions Against
Extraction event.
MPP joined our partner, BFFP, in a national ask of the Biden
administration to ban further petrochemical build out along with
a local ask related to solutions to move past single use plastics,
SUP on October 26th 1-2 p.m.
MPP contributed two 2 minute pre-recorded message to be
delivered on October 26th 1-2. MPP also had fourteen face in the
BFFP Extraction Banner
The first recording of the series, Monitor
and Protect Conodoguinet Creek - Part 1
PUP’s SUPs Challenge
How few SUPs can you exit the store with?
Prairy knocked over the recyling bin. She and Starbuck were upset by
what they found. They want to issue us all a challenge.
We challenged people to take their grocery shopping list to the store and
see how many products could be can purchased without them being
packaged in single use plastics or made with some portion of single use
plastics. They were asked to calculate and record the percent of single
use plastic (SUP) items theiir purchases contained. (SUP items are things
wrapped or made from plastic that are used ones. ie shampoo or milk
bottles, . SUP = items that were wrapped in or contained single use
plastic, including the plastic bags you may use to carry them out).
SUP/ total items purchased x 100 = % of SUP items
SUP's Day by Day in July
In connection with the Plastic Free July campaign, MPP sharded a Daily
Digest of single use plastics, SUP, information. Everyday a resource about
SUP was uploaded to MPP Facebook.
One report declared that we consume and inhale 5 grams of plastic per
week, the equivalence of a credit card.
This information seeks to educate, impower and bring HOPE and real
action for ending SUP negative impacts.
The resource content included information on the entire plastic cycle and
their impacts. Some resources included: articles, videos, books, youth
educational information, recommended letters to legislators, petitions, and
connections to our partners and their bank of educational resources and
suggested action you may take.
Week 1 Introduction to the plastic cycle, impacts and Break Free From
Plastic Pollution Act (BFFPP act)
Week 2
Recycling Myths
Week 3
False Solutions
Week 4
Solutions
Week 5
What Can I Do &
Break Free From Plastic Pollution, BFFPP
Carlisle Bag Ban & Consumer and
Business Surveys
Began working with Dickinson and Widner students as well as the
borough of Carlisle’s Climate Action Commision on a bag ban
ordinance, consumer and business surveys.
PA PFAS campaign
Began working on a PA PFAS campaign to educate the public and
support them speaking during the Department of Environmental
Protection Agencies Bureau of Safe Drinking Water’s, DEP-BSDW,
sixty day public comment period beginning January 2022
Presentations to various organizations
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FairFax 350
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Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association (CCWA)
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Yellow Breeches Watershed Association
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PA Master Naturalist annual meeting
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The Foundation for Enhancing Communities with South
Mountain Partnership highlighted MPP as a local organization
addressing Climate Change at their Fall Partnership Meeting,
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An interview with Artists4earth.com as one of the few
selected organizations they sponsor to support protecting our
Earth through the gift of art.
Grants
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Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association (CCWA)
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Artists 4 Earth
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Janak Nayrayan
The first recording of the series, Monitor
and Protect Conodoguinet Creek - Part 1
BFFP Cono Ck with Outtakes
This video is a message to the Biden administration asking him to ban
further petrochemical build out and protect PA's watersheds. We also ask
him to support local communities in handling single use plastic by building
real recycling infrastructure and requiring single use plastic to contain a
minimum of 30% recycled plastic.
BFFP FF FACTS with Outtakes #2
This video is a message to the Biden administration asking him to ban
further petrochemical build out and stop using American tax dollars to
subsidies an industry that harms us and our environment.
We also ask him to support local communities in handling single use
plastic by building real recycling infrastructure and requiring single use
plastic to contain a minimum of 30% recycled plastic.
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The Covanta incinerator in Chester,
Pennsylvania. Residents live right behind
the plant, which burned about 200 tons of
garbage a day until the practice was
discontinued in April. Photograph:
Hannah Yoon/The Guardian
CR reveals where most of the plastic you throw away really ends up and explains
what to do to limit its environmental harm
Sponsored by TLC Foundation
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