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Public Engagement Implementation Committee

The city has an opportunity through public education and engagement to accelerate behavior changes to mitigate the community’s GHG footprint while also working to address climate injustice. Education is the fabric that ties the sections of this plan together, and it is critical to achieving the city’s goals. Nowhere is this truer than in Bethlehem’s schools— from Bethlehem Area School District (BASD) to the local universities and colleges—where education can spark young imaginations and activism to create broader change—within the city and beyond.

The Public Engagement Implementation Committee meets with the ideas and goals from this section in mind.

Phases

Phases overview

Phase 1: Identify Year 1 & 2 Goals

Identify Year 1 & 2 Goals

Phase 2: Implement Year 1 & 2 Goals

Implement Year 1 & 2 Goals

Phase 3: Identify Year 3 Goals

Identify Year 3 Goals

Phase 4: Implement Year 3 Goals

Implement Year 3 Goals

Phase 5: Identify Year 4 Goals

Identify Year 4 Goals

Phase 6: Implement Year 4 Goals

Implement Year 4 Goals

Phase 7: Identify Year 5 Goals

Identify Year 5 Goals

Implement Year 3 Goals

January 1, 2024 5:00 AM - November 11, 2024 5:00 AM

Year 3 Achievments:

Continued progress on promotion of climate challenge
Continued engagement with existing participants
Distribution of yard signs
126 participants to date
CAP Communications Plan continued implementation

1 idea

Daniel Ou-Yang2 years ago As we know, the City of Bethlehem no longer recycles Styrofoam or foams made of plastics. Currently, any such foam wastes are collected by the private waste collecting companies for landfill. Such process creates large volumes of wastes to landfills and a secondary (but more severe) contamination to our environment by allowing the colloidal plastic micro-nanoparticles degraded from the land-buried foams into the ground waters, rivers, oceans and even our drinking water. Our primary objective is to prevent used plastic foams from being collected as garbage and being put into landfills. Technologies exist at Lehigh University that will convert used foams into solid polymers and recycle the converted polymer materials for further use. This will not only reduce plastic foams in landfills but also establish a circular economy for the plastics. To this end, we seek the City's interest in recycling single-use plastics through a partnership with a group of faculty at Lehigh University. The City's primary role will be to collect household used Styrofoam for recycle by the Lehigh team and to help making the City residence aware of the importance of recycling single-used plastics, especially the used plastic foams. If you are interested in this idea, please connect us to the individuals within the City organization who are responsible for recycling, or persons on the Actions Group of the Climate Action Plan who might be of interest in this. My name is Daniel Ou-Yang and I am a professor of physics and bioengineering. I am also the director of Lehigh's Emulsion Polymers Institute that developed the technologies for plastic recycling. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Thank you.

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