successful City hall foam ban rally

This morning, Baltimore Beyond Plastic brought out over 200 students and teachers from 17 schools to Baltimore City Hall to rally and testify in favor of a Baltimore ban on expanded polystyrene (i.e., "Styrofoam"). We got a lot of fantastic news coverage; check out all of the links to articles below. Thank you to all our participants!

• The Baltimore Sun, "Pushed by students, Baltimore council considers ban on foam food containers"
• Baltimore Brew, "After three failed tries, polystyrene foam back before City Council"
• WBAL TV Channel 11, "Baltimore City Council again takes up Styrofoam ban bill"
• CBS WJZ Channel 13, "Styrofoam Ban Once Again Being Considered by City Council"
• Real News Network, "Students Push City Council to Consider Banning Styrofoam"
• Waste Dive, "Inside Baltimore's Proposed Polystyrene Ban"​
• The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, "Local Students Push for Citywide Styrofoam Ban" 

Click here to access a photo album from the rally with pictures taken by Blue Water Baltimore's Michel Anderson. Thanks, Blue Water!
Thank you to the Baltimore Community Foundation for funding our work and for creating this short video about the rally.
And here is a link to the entire hearing recording on YouTube.