How to Get Your Friends to Go Green
2021-04-26
Frustrated that your friends aren’t seeing the plastic problem the way you do? Try these strategies to nudge their awareness and motivate them to make changes!Continue Reading
Reducing Plastic in Household Items: Product Reviews
2021-02-09
A PASUP member tried 19 hygiene and household products that are plastic-free or have much less SUP than conventional products, and gives unbiased opinions on their effectiveness and ease of use.Continue Reading
Pandemic Grocery Shopping: How can we say no to plastic?
2020-12-12
by Becca Stallings A simple trip to the supermarket has become a very different experience during the COVID-19 pandemic! There are so many new things to think about: wearing a mask, keeping your distance from other customers, following directions for one-way aisles and no-touch payments, keeping your hands away fromContinue Reading
Where to Recycle #5 Plastic in Pittsburgh
2020-10-28
Reimagined Recycling has stepped in to close a Pittsburgh recycling gap by collecting items of any shape made from polypropylene, the plastic with “5 PP” in the triangular symbol on the bottom. They also accept containers made from high-density polyethylene with symbol “2 HDPE”. Continue Reading
Taming the Tide of Trash: What Can You Do NOW?
2020-07-08
PASUP members have found some projects collecting and studying SUP in our environment, challenging us to help clean up our planet in general as well as our own impact upon it.Continue Reading
SUP Alternatives for School Meals
2020-07-03
by Becca Stallings PASUP’s SUP in Schools Action Team met with representatives of several Pittsburgh-area public, private, and charter schools in late 2019 and early 2020 to discuss what they are doing already and what they might be able to do to reduce SUP in their schools. We decided toContinue Reading