by youth, for youth.

Baltimore Beyond Plastic was founded in 2016 by two teenagers fed up with our earth's fascination and our city's use of single-use plastics. The group is now building a homegrown student network from across Baltimore City in the fight to make plastics biodegradable and not harmful to us or to our planet.

Our goal is to reduce plastic pollution in Baltimore while empowering the youth voice, a demographic that is frequently underrepresented in our city and across the world.
Here's how we plan on accomplishing this:
  1. legislation
    1. Styrofoam ban
  2. peer-to-peer outreach
    1. visits to school Green Teams to talk about plastics and trash
    2. community cleanups
    3. youth trainings and events
  3. educational campaigns
    1. outreach to community members
    2. teaching through families
    3. posting resources on our website!
Although legislation is crucial, it is not our final frontier. Whether a bill passes or not, we still feel it is our first priority to educate everyday Baltimoreans about the problems with plastics and how they can change their lifestyle to avoid plastic. These conversations have more impact than any law that we could ever pass.
Check out youth across Baltimore City in action at our events below, and read their stories here.
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