The Story of Plastic
The Nelson Conservation Commission, Nelson Clean Energy, and the Harrisville Rethink Plastics Team — with support from the NH Beyond Plastics Affiliate and The Story of Stuff — hosted a showing of the award-winning film,
The Story of Plastic.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Nelson Town Hall
We watched a portion of the filmand had a wonderful discussion of practical solutions to plastic pollution.
Ways to Go Zero Waste slides and slideshow are linked below.
by Alexander Hurst for The Guardian
"Too much focus on virtuous individual behaviour is clearly misplaced. It distracts from industry and lets polluting corporations and governments outsource responsibility for systemic change at scale. And systemic change at scale is exactly what the EU’s 2021 ban on single-use plastics is in the process of achieving, by intervening at the producer level in a way that has had a visible domestic – and international – effect."
Resources to support NH legislative efforts
to limit excess packaging and single-use plastics.
EPR is an approach to managing waste that makes packaging producers legally and financially responsible for end-of-life management of their products, instead of relying on taxpayers (cities and towns) to foot the bill as they do currently in New Hampshire.
Reduces waste by ensuring that restaurant takeout orders do not automatically include single-use accessories such as plastic utensils, straws, condiments, and napkins.
