Here's a roundup of the latest news and updates from Coalition Members. We want to hear from you! Please send us your updates. Life Without Plastic Europe Launches
Check out the new Europe-dedicated retail-wholesale website from Life Without Plastic, making it easier and less expensive for Europeans to order in Euros or British Pounds and ship within Europe. Visit the site.
Sign Up: The Beyond Waste Student Summits
Post Landfill Action Network or P.L.A.N. is hosting Summits on Feb. 29 (St. Petersburg, FL), and Mar. 29 (Christopher Newport, VA). Click here to learn more about joining in person, online, or sponsoring. Calling All Artists! Add Your Piece to the Earth Day Network’s Gallery
Earth Day Network’s new initiative, Artists for the Earth™, is inviting artists and arts organizations around the globe to join with Earth Day 2020 and the 50th Anniversary by featuring their work. Learn more.
Nominate a Person of Color for the Rachel's Network Catalyst Award
The Rachel’s Network Catalyst Award recognizes up to five mid-career women of color making an environmental impact
in communities across the country with prizes of $10,000 per winner, as well as networking and recognition throughout the year. Apply, nominate, or forward this email to a potential candidate. Applications are due Mar. 16. Apply
for the RAY Fellowship
Inspired by efforts to increase racial diversity in environmentally-related sectors, the Roger Arliner Young (RAY) Diversity Fellowship Program supports two cohorts of Fellows per year: RAY Conservation Fellows and RAY Clean Energy Fellows. Applications for the 2020-2022 RAY Fellowship are open until March 22. Learn more. Sign Up for the Reusable LA Volunteer Training
This volunteer training will empower sustainability advocates to conduct outreach to local businesses in an effort to obtain information on the single-use disposables used in their day-to-day operations. The data will be used to help drive progressive and equitable plastic pollution reduction policy in LA County, moving us closer to creating a thriving culture of reuse in Los Angeles. Sign up.
Tune In: Fighting Marine Debris on the U.S. West Coast – Effective Actions and Tools
With Casey Palmer-McGee of the Samish Island Nation, Cait Goodwin, and Tracy Cres
of Oregon Sea Grant, and Miriam Gordon of UPSTREAM, on March 5 at 1 pm EST. Register.
Attend Ocean Plastic: A Scientist's Tale
With PPC Scientific Advisor Dr. Chelsea Rochman, Assistant Professor in
Ecology, University of Toronto on March 10, in Washington, DC. Register.
Waste Management Agrees to Identify Gaps in Recycling Infrastructure as Step Toward Increasing Plastics
Recycling
Following in-depth engagement by As You Sow and Trillium Asset Management, Waste Management, Inc. (WM) has committed to publishing a report that could help ease the recycling crisis that has developed in parts of the United States. Join the Livestream: Best Practices in Container Deposit Laws
Susan V. Collins, President of CRI, will be joined by several panels of experts and moderators on March 16 via livestream for a special conference: Best Practices in Container Deposit Laws, a face-to-face gathering of international experts with the goal of creating a guide for model beverage container deposit legislation. Register.
Transforming Waste Plastics into High-Value Industrial Building Blocks
Since founding Solver BioCellection, 25-year-old Miranda Wang, a PPC Youth Ambassador, invented a $5 million technology that breaks down plastics into chemical building
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