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Our mission is to end plastic pollution everywhere. 

Launched in January 2019 and based at Bennington College, Beyond Plastics pairs the wisdom and experience of environmental policy experts with the energy and creativity of grassroots advocates to build a vibrant and effective movement to end plastic pollution. We use our deep policy and advocacy expertise to build a well-informed, effective movement seeking to achieve the institutional, economic, and societal changes needed to save our planet, and ourselves, from the negative health, climate, and environmental impacts of the production, usage, and disposal of plastics.

Plastic pollution is a growing global environmental crisis that disproportionately burdens people of color around the world in a variety of ways. We stand in solidarity with these communities around the world and seek to find respectful and productive ways to lend our assistance in the struggle to end plastic pollution and environmental racism.

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Beyond Plastics Webinar: Microplastics’ Impact on the Brain & Heart

Recent studies have found small fragments of plastics known as microplastics in the human brain and heart arteries. These studies have also shown a link between the presence of microplastics and adverse health outcomes. How do these tiny bits of plastic enter our bodies and make their way into our brains and our hearts? And what happens when they lodge there?

Join Beyond Plastics, Physicians for Social Responsibility - NYS, and Environmental Advocates of New York for a free educational webinar on these questions with Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan, a physician scientist whose work has helped transform global perceptions and understanding of the impact of environmental risk factors on cardiovascular disease and Marcus Garcia, PharmD, RPh, University of New Mexico Medical School, co-authors of two ground-breaking recent studies on the presence of microplastics in the human heart and brain.

EarthSayers Marcus Garcia; Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan

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