# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Organizing
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 14 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Wed, 14 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Presentation by Emily Young, Advocacy Outreach Coordinator, Stream Teams United, for Missouri River Relief’s Big Muddy Speaker Series, hosted in St Charles by Greenway Network.
7 p.m. presentation (6 p.m. Social Hour)
Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Dr, St Charles, MO 63301

Did you know that more than 460 million metric tons of plastic are produced each year—and about 40% of it is designed for single use? Despite decades of recycling efforts, only 9% of all plastic has ever been effectively recycled. The rest ends up in landfills (49%), is incinerated (19%), or escapes into our environment (22%). This presentation will explore how we got to this point, the far-reaching impacts of plastic on our environment, health, climate, and global equity, and how community organizing can drive real, source-based solutions to reduce plastic use and waste.

Emily is a Pennsylvania native who attended Juniata College and received a BS in Environmental Chemistry in 2022. During her time at Juniata, she completed an immersive learning semester focused on Aquatic Ecology at the Raystown Field Station and wrote an undergraduate thesis investigating total phosphorus sequestration in Raystown Lake, a US Army Corps of Engineers reservoir located in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Following graduation, Emily worked as a Watershed Specialist at the Franklin County Conservation District in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, where she coordinated watershed restoration projects in the county and organized several conservation education programs and events for children and adults. In this role, Emily also worked closely with local, state, and federal partners and stakeholders to implement Franklin County’s Chesapeake Bay Countywide Action Plan. Emily served in this role for just over two years before moving to Waynesville, Missouri in 2024. She joined Stream Teams United as an Advocacy Outreach Coordinator in August 2024 to work on the Show-Me Less Plastic project, which aims to reduce plastic pollution in the waterways of the Great Rivers State. 

Details can be found at https://bigmuddyspeakers.org/st-charles/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/earth-city/the-impacts-of-plastic-pollution-and-the-power-of-community-organizing/200029466978027
- **Event Categories**: health-wellness
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Earth City
- **state**: MO
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Bike Stop Cafe
- **lat**: 38.776293431792
- **long**: -90.483461690502
- **full address**: Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Dr,St. Charles, Missouri, Earth City, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Organizing being held?
  - **A:** The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Organizing takes place on Wed, 14 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Wed, 14 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Bike Stop Cafe, 701 S Riverside Dr,St. Charles, Missouri, Earth City, United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Organizing?
  - **A:** The Impacts of Plastic Pollution and the Power of Community Organizing is organized by Greenway Network.

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