Plastic Bags Fences of America

07/19/2026

Hedi was out picking up her favorite Church Rd. and Saturday so I went out today and added more to her pile by removing plastic bags off the barbed wire fences, and other trash off Hwy. 12. I found 3 dead mice, and an iPhone that I'm charging as I write.. Rio Vista Liter Pickers...

06/06/2026

https://toxicfreefuture.org/research/endocrine-disrupting-plastic-chemicals-in-breast-milk/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f2b764bf-159f-4a7a-b6c9-7a61083e2a04

New testing found BPA, BPS, melamine, cyanuric acid, and triclosan in breast milk samples, pointing to widespread exposure from everyday products and materials.

06/04/2026

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/oceanclean-app/id6473020110

04/09/2026

"The Plastic Detox" is a 2026 Netflix documentary exploring how reducing exposure to plastics may impact fertility and overall health.

"The Plastic Detox" follows six couples with unexplained infertility who attempt to lower their exposure to plastic-related chemicals over a 90-day period under the guidance of environmental epidemiologist Dr. Shanna Swan. The documentary highlights the pervasive presence of plastics in everyday life—from food packaging and personal care products to clothing and receipts—and examines how chemicals like phthalates and bisphenols (BPA) can disrupt hormones and potentially affect reproductive health.

02/15/2026

We need all the help we can get to overwhelm EPA with comments to convince them to close the regulatory loophole around these toxic, pollinator-killing seeds.

You can share this link with friends and family to sign:

Pollinator-killing neonicotinoid coated seeds cover almost half of US farmland thanks to a loophole allowing them to escape normal pesticide regulations. 1 seed can kill 80,000 bees! EPA allows them to be planted w/ no environmental review, but Center for Food Safety is fighting back. Tell EPA to re...

02/10/2026

Beyond Plastic:

Explore the Principles of Environmental Justice established in 1991, a crucial framework for grassroots movements.

01/29/2026

Beyond Plastics:

Find out more about this global crisis and what you can do to help fix it.

01/27/2026

This is a first for us. For the past few years, we have engaged with you on a range of topics related to plastic pollution. And by the end of this letter you might be thinking, “Stick to plastics, Enck.” But we can’t. And we won’t.

Like many of you, we are watching with great concern as ICE and Border Patrol's armed presence continues in Minneapolis and other communities across our beautiful country.

The murder of Veterans Administration nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti (age 37) by Border Patrol agents this past weekend hit us all very hard, especially so soon after the murder of mother and poet Renee Nicole Good (also age 37) in her minivan on January 7 by Jonathan Ross of ICE. Our hearts go out to their loved ones. 💔

In an interview with the Associated Press, Pretti’s parents described what a truly special person Alex was, including that he was an avid outdoors enthusiast who would often spend time in the woods with his dog. He sounds like our sons and grandsons and nephews and the kid next door.

Many immigrants who have done nothing wrong are being detained even when they are showing up in court for immigration hearings. These are our neighbors. This has to stop.

Next to my senior year high school yearbook photo, I included a quote: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.”

But you are a good person, Tom. That’s why we love working with you.

⌛ The U.S. Senate will vote on funding for ICE and Border Patrol before this week is out.

Please call your U.S. Senators and urge them to reject this funding and to insist that ICE leave Minnesota and Maine — this week. 📞

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If you have friends or family in Maine, New Hampshire, and Alaska, those Senators need to hear from their constituents.

There is a lot going on in the world. We will keep chipping away at the plastics, toxic chemicals, and climate change problems, especially as they impact environmental justice communities. We do this work every day and love what we do.

But this moment demands more from all of us. I find strength in this centuries-old quote by Rabbi Tarfon:

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief.
Do justly, now.
Love mercy, now.
Walk humbly, now.
You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.

Sincerely,

Judith Enck and the Beyond Plastics team