Beth Massa

I live on a houseboat in Amsterdam Noord with two cats and one husband. 

Getting single-use plastic out of my home and off the planet!

Growing herbs

Baking sourdough bread

Music and Dance

turning my garden into a heaven for bees and butterflies (except for the cats)

I live in bit of a special place. A hidden dijk with 62 houseboats and a nature preserve and wetlands. But our hearts break with our neighbors that we are constantly fighting back the tide of litter and plastic pollution that washes up on our coast and collects along the streets.  We do neighborhood clean ups but the pollution always comes back. I want the last time we have to pick up trash to be the last time forever. That is my dream. I want to stop packaging pollution at the source. 

A global system change needs to happen so we can't stop packaging pollution from ruining our back yards our coastlines, our streets, our bus stops, our traffic intersections, our planet.  My dream is to contribute to this at the source. 

 

My biggest disappointment is the assumption, fueled and perpecturated by the oil industry and its giant corporate clients that depend on single use plastic packaging, that the responsibility of waste management fall on the consumer. If this worked, it would have alredy worked. Only a systemic change will make a difference.  I want to be a part of that change!