Beyond Plastics is a project built to end plastic pollution through education and organising, with more than 200 local groups across the United States. It runs campaigns, investigates companies and lobbies legislators, and it also produces some of the most practical free material available on the subject, which is why it appears in this section more than once.
What it publishes
- "Hold the Plastic, Please", the restaurant guide, which has its own page here.
- The Skip the Stuff toolkit, including printable posters for the counter with no logo on them.
- "The Real Truth About the U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate" (May 2022), which worked through the available data to put the national rate at between five and six percent. It is the source most people are quoting when they say plastic recycling does not work, and it is worth reading the method rather than only the headline.
How to use it
For a restaurant, the guide and the posters. For a diner who wants to do more than refuse a straw, the local groups: Beyond Plastics' list of them is a way to find people in your area working on the ordinances described on the foodware laws page.
About the organisation
Beyond Plastics is a campaigning organisation and makes no secret of it. PLEET links its material for its substance and has no relationship with it.