A Series of

Conversat

ions for

Single-Use

Plastics

2024

• 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 • 5/1/1/24 How Many Fish Can I Safely Eat, Watershed Protection? • 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 Trivia

Blue Vinyl Watch

Party Discussion

RECORDING This is a watch party and discussion of the harms of polyvinyl chloride. We watch an excerpt of Blue Vinyl and Jess Conard, an East Palestine Resident and Appalachia Director for Beyond Plastic, video about video about Ohio's Toxic Derailment and Polyvinyl Chloride Jess Conard joined the discussion, and we explored solutions. Blue Vinyl is a combination detective story, eco-activism documentary, and rollicking comedy that puts a human face on the dangers posed by polyvinyl chloride (PVC) at every stage of its life cycle. As environmental movie distributor Bullfrog Films puts it, “Consumer consciousness and the precautionary principle have never been so much fun!” Recognition: Winner of a Sundance Film Festival Award, nominated for two Emmy Awards. Synopsis: Turned off by her parents’ decision to put vinyl siding on their small Long Island house, director Judith Helfand takes viewers on her 5- year adventure across the United States and to Europe to get the back story on vinyl. Along the way, she meets area residents who suffer from cancer and respiratory ailments–shining a spotlight on environmental justice years before the term became popular. She shows how they became empowered to test local air quality using simple buckets–soon discovering how vinyl chloride in the air often exceeded limits, arbitrary limits, because there is no safe level of exposure to vinyl chloride.

Hazards of Synthetic

Playing Surfaces

Synthetic Playing surfaces (also known as Unified Playing Surfaces) are rapidly being put in our community playgrounds and sports fields. This leads to health harm to our children, athletes, and the environment. These surfaces are not regulated or third-party tested for their safety claims. Health harms range from impact injuries, burns, longer athlete recovery time, and exposure to toxic chemicals. These products are more expensive than alternatives. They are toxic to the health of our watersheds. These problems expose schools, municipalities, and businesses to the risk of future litigation. Discover what toxic chemicals and microplastics leach into our children's and wildlife's skin, lungs, and digestive tract. Our air, water, and soil are full of these toxins already, and we shouldn't expose our most vulnerable populations to these hazards. Join Halt the Harm Network's AC Stauble, Move Past Plastic's Tamela Trussell , and special guest speakers Aaron Golembiewski, Head of Business Development for Turf Talents, to discuss alternatives to the harmful synthetic turfs for this educational event.

How to Ensure Safe

Drinking Water

presentation.

Finally, the EPA has acknowledged the hazards of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and is setting scientifically supported maximum contaminant levels (MCL). DEP has published its PFAS rule- making. Learn what this means for your community. PFAS compounds are pervasive in our society. They are found in our bodies, household dust, clothing, cosmetics, and many other products that we use daily, and are found in drinking water. MPP is offering presentations to learn more about PFAS and how to engage your municipality in testing their drinking water for these toxic bioaccumulating chemicals.

Zero Waste Team In

Action

PFAS In Things You Aren't

Thinking About - Feb 22,

2023 Hosted by Zero Waste,

PA Sierra Club

Are we being exposed to Forever Chemicals (PFAS) through local farms because of contamination in the municipal sludge that farms use for fertilizer? Are we at risk from unsafe levels of PFAS in other everyday items, like our clothes? Hear how local activists testing and analyzing in places where the EPA and DEPA have been slow to investigate. Tamela Trussell from Move Past Plastic will speak about PFAS exposure from clothes, utensils, packaging and other stuff that we may not think about. Darree Sicher from the SC/PA Food & Ag team will speak about PFAS link between our foods and farms and the use of sewage sludge/biosolids marketed as a “fertilizer”.

Monitor and Protect

Conodoguinet Creek

- Part 1

The first recording of the series, Monitor and Protect Conodoguinet Creek - Part 1 Sponsored by Move Past Plastic, MPP, and hosted by Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association, CCWA and Penn State Extension. This program was held virtually on October 26th at 6:30-7:30 p.m. Our speaker was Jerry Steigleman, Middlesex Township Asst. Code Enforcement Officer. He shared his very personal story of the history, content, and potential hazards of several past waste sites in and near Carlisle.

Break Free From

Plastic Extration

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. Latest news for evidence for these ask: Pa. charges Energy Transfer with environmental crimes over Mariner East pipeline project The company has already paid more than $20 million in fines for more than 120 violations of the state’s Clean Streams Law. That same law is the basis for the criminal charges announced Tuesday. By Susan Phillips | UPDATED: OCTOBER 5, 2021 | 5:52 PM -------------------------------------- ----- Shell hit with violations for chemical odor in county; investigation ongoing Chrissy Suttles Beaver County Times -------------------------------------- ------------ PennEast Pipeline is Cancelled! September 30, 2021 by Abigail M. Jones, Vice President of Legal and Policy

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.

You’re Breathing in

Microplastics, But

What Does That

Mean for Your

Health?

Microplastics are everywhere—in our food, water, and now even the air we breathe. But scientists are just starting to understand how airborne microplastics end up in the atmosphere and what happens when we breathe them in.

How Close Are We

to Reinventing

Plastic?

Our dependence on plastic is so extreme that we have microplastics not only floating through the ocean, but also in the atmosphere, in our food, and in our bodies. So how close are we to reinventing plastic?