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Kibera Door to Door Collection Tour with EJCAP
Video produced by Mitzhy Hernandez of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles Plastic pollution is a global crisis impacting the environment, health, and climate. Community leaders and frontline workers play a critical role in tackling this escalating problem. Urgent global actions are needed to address this crisis effectively. EJCAP...
SB 54: Not a Fairytale Ending for EJ Communities
What is “SB 54” ?
Training and Tour in Modesto and The Bay
EJCAP members gathered in August 2024
Community Engagement
Training and Tour in Modesto and The Bay
By Nona Chai of The Just Transition Alliance From August 6-8, the Just Transition Alliance attended a series of events that deepened relationships between labor and environmental justice groups and increased the capacity of the Environmental Justice Communities...
Kibera Door to Door Collection Tour with EJCAP
Video produced by Mitzhy Hernandez of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles Plastic pollution is a global crisis impacting the environment, health, and climate. Community leaders and frontline workers play a critical role in tackling this escalating...
Anti-Incineration Celebration!
If you would like to learn more about California’s historic EJ campaign against incinerators or local zero waste plans, we invite you to join EYCEJ and VIP for a celebration of their recent wins against Covanta on July 20th in Los Angeles. Saturday, July 20th,...
Actions and Campaigns
Kibera Door to Door Collection Tour with EJCAP
Video produced by Mitzhy Hernandez of Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles Plastic pollution is a global crisis impacting the environment, health, and climate. Community leaders and frontline workers play a critical role in tackling this escalating...
Environmental Justice Coalition at the Ottawa Global Plastics Treaty Talks (INC-4)
By Ananda Lee Tan of The Just Transition Alliance The Just Transition Alliance attended the Global Plastics Treaty (GPT) negotiations in Ottawa in April 2024, as part of the EJ Communities Against Plastics coalition. Along with over 180 members of a larger...
Worker-Community Solidarity in the Struggle for a Zero Waste Future
By Nona Chai of The Just Transition Alliance On May 9th, environmental justice (EJ) organizers joined the International Brotherhood of Teamsters’ Waste and Recycling Division at their Western Region Waste Meeting in Covina, California – to build alignment...
Resources
How to Recycle Light Bulbs
All types of light bulbs are recyclable, even those that contain traces of mercury. In fact, some types of light bulbs must be recycled—when tossed in the trash, they leach environmentally harmful chemicals into the soil and groundwater.12 How to Recycle Light Bulbs...
The Truth about Recycling in the U.S.
The Last Beach Clean Up and Beyond Plastics’ report “The Real Truth About the U.S. Plastics Recycling Rate” documents a recycling rate of just 5-6% for post-consumer plastic waste in the U.S. for 2021. The report also reveals that while plastics recycling is on the...
Composting in 4 Easy Steps
You want the pile to remain damp but not dripping wet. If you do not get enough rainfall to suffice, dump a bucket of water over it once a week to keep things moving.
Photo Gallery
Sidewalk Clean Up!
Scoping out the Forest
Planting a Tree
Meet the Volunteers
We Demand Climate Justice Now!
Composting is Easy
Sorting Plastic Caps
Climate Action Day
