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Single-Use Plastics
Quote from Carol Grayshaw on February 24, 2023, 11:57 amUse this topic to share information and resources regarding single-use plastic in Pennsylvania.
Use this topic to share information and resources regarding single-use plastic in Pennsylvania.
Quote from Carol Grayshaw on February 24, 2023, 11:59 amPennEnvironment Shares Single-Use Plastics Laws in Pennsylvania - a toolkit for passing bans and other laws tackling plastics pollution and litter in your municipality
Every year, Pennsylvanians use an estimated 4.75 billion single-use plastic bags. These bags are used for just a few minutes and then thrown “away”, but there is no “away”. Plastic bags and other single-use plastics end up in landfills, incinerators, or our environment, where they can last for hundreds of years, if not longer, harming wildlife, waterways, and our health.
Since 2018, PennEnvironment has helped more than a dozen Pennsylvania municipalities write, introduce, and pass legislation tackling single-use plastics. These ordinances—from cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to townships like Radnor and Easttown—impact over 2 million Pennsylvanians and could eliminate over 8 million pounds of plastic waste every year.
This toolkit provides a set of resources for local decision makers and activists to take action in their communities to rein in plastic pollution. It includes sample legislation, reports and research on various issues, and information on local legislation passed in municipalities across Pennsylvania.
For questions, more information, or if you’d like assistance on passing plastic legislation in your community, please contact zero waste advocate Faran Savitz at [email protected].
PennEnvironment Shares Single-Use Plastics Laws in Pennsylvania - a toolkit for passing bans and other laws tackling plastics pollution and litter in your municipality
Every year, Pennsylvanians use an estimated 4.75 billion single-use plastic bags. These bags are used for just a few minutes and then thrown “away”, but there is no “away”. Plastic bags and other single-use plastics end up in landfills, incinerators, or our environment, where they can last for hundreds of years, if not longer, harming wildlife, waterways, and our health.
Since 2018, PennEnvironment has helped more than a dozen Pennsylvania municipalities write, introduce, and pass legislation tackling single-use plastics. These ordinances—from cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh to townships like Radnor and Easttown—impact over 2 million Pennsylvanians and could eliminate over 8 million pounds of plastic waste every year.
This toolkit provides a set of resources for local decision makers and activists to take action in their communities to rein in plastic pollution. It includes sample legislation, reports and research on various issues, and information on local legislation passed in municipalities across Pennsylvania.
For questions, more information, or if you’d like assistance on passing plastic legislation in your community, please contact zero waste advocate Faran Savitz at [email protected].
Quote from Carol Grayshaw on August 27, 2024, 9:15 amSoutheastern Single Use Plastics Coalition
The Southeastern PA Single Use Plastics Coalition is an information and support group for Pennsylvania EAC’s. The group is focused on reducing plastic waste by helping townships enact single use plastic bag bans; and, going further, working on straws on request, utensils on request, and Styrofoam bans. Many other tangential issues around waste are also discussed. If you or your EAC has been looking to tackle the issue of single use plastic waste, then this is the group for you.
The group is composed of mostly Environmental Advisory Committee representatives from 50 -60 different townships in bucks, Chester, Montgomery, and Delaware counties, though we encourage and have members from elsewhere in PA as well.
To get involved, email Richard Metz at [email protected].
Southeastern Single Use Plastics Coalition
The Southeastern PA Single Use Plastics Coalition is an information and support group for Pennsylvania EAC’s. The group is focused on reducing plastic waste by helping townships enact single use plastic bag bans; and, going further, working on straws on request, utensils on request, and Styrofoam bans. Many other tangential issues around waste are also discussed. If you or your EAC has been looking to tackle the issue of single use plastic waste, then this is the group for you.
The group is composed of mostly Environmental Advisory Committee representatives from 50 -60 different townships in bucks, Chester, Montgomery, and Delaware counties, though we encourage and have members from elsewhere in PA as well.
To get involved, email Richard Metz at [email protected].
Quote from Carol Grayshaw on October 23, 2024, 1:28 pmJoin the Next Meeting of the SEPA Single Use Plastics Coalition
You are invited to join the next meeting of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Single Use Plastics Coalition on November 12 at 7PM. This meeting will feature a special presentation by Carol Armstrong, Master Watershed Steward and Chair of the Charlestown Township EAC, on the effects of microplastics on human health. Also on the agenda will be updates from two additional townships that have passed single-use plastic bag bans. Anyone in the state of Pennsylvania is invited to join.
RSVP to Richard Metz at [email protected] (Please include your municipality with your RSVP)
Join the Next Meeting of the SEPA Single Use Plastics Coalition
You are invited to join the next meeting of the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) Single Use Plastics Coalition on November 12 at 7PM. This meeting will feature a special presentation by Carol Armstrong, Master Watershed Steward and Chair of the Charlestown Township EAC, on the effects of microplastics on human health. Also on the agenda will be updates from two additional townships that have passed single-use plastic bag bans. Anyone in the state of Pennsylvania is invited to join.
RSVP to Richard Metz at [email protected] (Please include your municipality with your RSVP)