Berkshire Environmental Action Team
20 Chapel St., Pittsfield, MA 01201

Greetings!

We know you're an environmentally-conscious community member and that you recognize the problems we are facing globally with plastics pollution. For this reason, we wanted to let you know about some new resources that can help you and our community reduce plastic consumption and waste. We hope you find these useful and share them with your favorite local eateries, friends, and family!
Beyond Plastics, a nationwide project based at Bennington College with a mission to end plastic pollution, has just created a guide for restaurants to reduce their plastic use. The guide has a ton of useful information about reducing your plastic waste as a business owner, employee, or consumer. Please share the guide with anyone that you think might benefit from it!
If you've wanted your restaurant or school to stop using single-use plastics and transition to reusable replacements, PlasticFreeRestaurants can help! It's a nonprofit organization that pays the difference in costs for restaurants and schools to buy reusables instead of disposables. They've also been compiling a list of plastic-free restaurants across the country.
Within the guide, you'll find the recommendation of PlasticScore: a free app that allows you to fight plastic pollution every time you dine in or get take-out by reviewing restaurants and coffee shops based on their usage of single-use plastics.
Do you know of other great resources similar to those we mentioned above?