The global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution.
Since its launch in 2016, more than 13,000 organizations and individual supporters from across the world have joined the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement to demand massive reductions in single-use plastics and to push for lasting solutions to the plastic pollution crisis.
Coca-Cola Petition
Plastic Private Finance
Plastics are a risk for the financial system. Despite their sustainability claims, banks enable greenwashing and plastic dependency through unchecked lending and investments to top plastic polluters. Banks can use their financial power to drive real change toward reducing plastic pollution and supporting real solutions to plastic pollution.
Audit the aisles with our questionnaire to be part of global change! Between 6 May and 31 July, we invite you to fill out a simple questionnaire on your next supermarket trip. By completing just one supermarket audit, you help build global data that will push supermarkets to be more sustainable.
Tell Coca-Cola's New CEO to End Their Plastic Legacy!
Coca-Cola has been named the top global corporate plastic polluter for six years in a row, producing over 134 billion single-use plastic bottles every year. Despite this, the company has walked back key commitments to reduce single-use plastic and expand reusable packaging. Tell Coca-Cola's new CEO to end their plastic legacy! Sign the petition now!
EU Restricts Forever Chemicals in Food Packaging as New Law Applies
As the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation becomes applicable on 12 August, food-contact packaging exceeding the new PFAS limits can no longer be placed on the EU market. Campaigners say the EU must now ensure strong enforcement and accelerate the shift towards reuse and refill systems.
Zero-Waste Routes: A Regional Initiative to Highlight Examples of Reuse and Sustainable Waste Management
With the goal of strengthening and raising awareness of local initiatives that promote waste prevention and responsible waste management, the Zero Waste Routes initiative selected a series of in-person tours organized by local organizations in various Latin American countries.
While Corporations Stall on Plastic Waste, a Flood-Prone Barangay in the Philippines Is Cleaning Up the Mess
For decades, Potrero, the largest barangay (town) in Malabon City in the northern part of Metro Manila, Philippines, lived with the harsh consequences of plastic pollution. Wedged along the Tullahan River, a catch basin for waste flowing from Bulacan, Quezon City, and Caloocan, the barangay endured floods so severe that residents climbed onto rooftops for safety.
Two Arrests in Texas for Peaceful Protest Against Dow Chemical; Public Meeting Announced for Dow’s Water Discharge Permit
77-Year-Old Wilson arrested while attempting to deliver a letter at the Dow Chemical plastics plant in Seadrift, and Dan Lê arrested while disrupting Dow CEO’s keynote remarks at the CERAWeek conference in Houston
Join the communities on the frontlines from petrochemical build outs upstream to landfills and incinerators downstream. See firsthand how plastic devastates natural ecosystems, and destroys people’s health, livelihoods, and peace of mind.
Bring systemic change through a holistic approach tackling plastic pollution across the whole plastics value chain, focusing on prevention rather than cure, and providing effective solutions.
Major Financial Institutions Provided nearly $220bn to Top Plastic Polluters between 2019 and 2025, New Research Shows
November 10, 2026 | Break Free From Plastic
Lenders are locking in a plastic-intensive model that deepens climate and public health risks
Member Stories, Plastics & Health, Real Solutions
Mingas por el mar: More Than 10 Years Transforming the Fight Against Plastic Through Ecuador’s Communities
October 24, 2026 | Break Free From Plastic LAC
From beach cleanups to the implementation of reuse systems, Mingas por el mar demonstrates that solutions to plastic pollution begin at the local level. As part of Break Free From Plastic, the Ecuadorian organization connects local action with a global movement that seeks to transform the way we produce, consume, and manage plastics.
Member Stories, Real Solutions, Youth
From Bandung to Nowshera: What Organic Waste Taught Me
October 13, 2026 | Sabir Hussain
Sabir Hussain, Founder/Director of Youth Nowshera, reflects on an Organics Waste Conference.
Plastics are a risk for the financial system. Despite their sustainability claims, banks enable greenwashing and plastic dependency through unchecked lending and investments to top plastic polluters. Banks can use their financial power to drive real change toward reducing plastic pollution and supporting real solutions to plastic pollution.
Corporate Accountability
Tell Coca-Cola's New CEO to End Their Plastic Legacy!
Coca-Cola has been named the top global corporate plastic polluter for six years in a row, producing over 134 billion single-use plastic bottles every year. Despite this, the company has walked back key commitments to reduce single-use plastic and expand reusable packaging. Tell Coca-Cola's new CEO to end their plastic legacy! Sign the petition now!
Corporate Accountability
Supermarket Audit Report 2025
This report offers a first global snapshot of how supermarkets are either facilitating or hindering efforts to reduce plastic use. Their business practices in store can have a huge impact on how much plastic is used and taken home by their customers. Supermarkets wield significant power when it comes to influencing consumer behavior and they could be using it to facilitate reuse and plastic reduction practices.
Join the 13,000+ members representing millions of people around the world.
Whether you represent an organization or want to join as an individual, you can help fight the plastic pollution crisis. And as a movement, we can achieve so much more. Become a member today and be part of the change!
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