Eliminate Plastic Pollution – Let's Create a Wave of Change!

Our monthly New Paltz Climate Smart Solutions Meetup seeks to offer ideas to individuals as to how they can be part of the solution through lifestyle changes that help mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis. We cover a wide variety of topics and learn from each other. This month we are again focusing on the plastic problem because plastic production and disposal is a climate issue on every level.

We have invited Suzette Munley from Beyond Plastics to bring us up to date on what we as individuals can do. It will take changes at every level of our economy and civil life to stem the tide of plastic pollution. Individuals need to be moved to act in their personal lives and take action as part of a growing movement; corporations need to feel the pressure to initiate changes in their purchasing and packaging habits; governments need to impose bans and adopt laws that require extended producer responsibility; and new manufacturing of plastic must be prevented from spreading. Beyond Plastics seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public on the plastic pollution crisis; encourage businesses to eliminate single-use plastics; train people to become leaders in the anti-plastics movement; and help block new plastic manufacturing and plastic burning facilities.