Beyond Plastics is a premier website featuring continuously updated and new information such as white papers, fact sheets, and articles on a range of topics including “Perils of PVC,” and “Help Local Restaurants Reduce Plastics.” There are tabs for news releases, the press, and requests for speakers. Judith Enck, former EPA Regional Administrator under President Obama and senior fellow at the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, is President of Beyond Plastics.
https://www.beyondplastics.org
The Plastic Pollution Coalition website exemplifies perfectly its goal to “Create A Just, Equitable World Free Of Plastic Pollution And Its Toxic Impacts.” The website offers guides and tools to support individuals, businesses, organizations, and communities on their plastic free journeys. Particularly useful is the Baby Guide showing how to keep babies from the toxic chemicals found in plastic.
https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org
The website of the Environmental Center, University of Colorado, Boulder offers an excellent written summary of the impacts of plastic on climate change. There are also valuable links to sustainable transportation, recycling and composting, and energy and climate justice. Click on the link titled, “The Impact of Plastic on Climate Change.”
https://www.colorado.edu/ecenter/climate
The National Resources Defense Council provides an introductory overview, Single Use Plastics 101 that addresses such topics as: What are single use plastics? Why are single use plastics bad? Health Harms from Microplastics. The NRDC works to safeguard the earth – – its people and animals, and the natural systems on which all life depends. In the past NRDC helped pass the Clean Water Act, solve the ozone layer problem, and has worked to protect some of the world’s most iconic ecosystems and support sound environmental decision making.
https://www.nrdc.org/stories/single-use-plastics-101
The National Institutes of Health is the primary agency for conducting and supporting medical research. Go to the website and search “effects of microplastics on health” to find a large number and wide variety of studies dealing with microplastics and health. Examples include: plastic particles in bottled water; microplastics in human tissues including lung, blood and placenta; health effects of microplastics in the context of climate change in the Great Lakes region. There is also a link to the National Library of Medicine.
