Plastic Free July
As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, people around the world are demonstrating that a life free from unnecessary plastic and disposable material is still possible. This year’s Plastic Free July will continue paving the way to #BreakFreeFromPlastic while encouraging principles built on a just recovery from the pandemic.
In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
Break Free From Plastic reaffirms the unequivocal truth that #BlackLivesMatter — we join in solidarity with our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) members fighting for Freedom, Liberation, and Justice around the world.
Community Action Micro-Funds for Black-led Organizations
As part of Break Free From Plastic’s work in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter, today the BFFP US Coordination and Communications Team is releasing Community Action Micro-Funds for Black Communities on the Frontlines of the Plastic Pollution Crisis.
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Re-Exportation of Last Batch of 80 Containers of South Korean Garbage Re-Ig […]
4 August 2020, Quezon City. After sitting in Northern Mindanao for two years, the final batch of 80 container vans of contaminated plastic waste from South Korea are set to sail home this week amid the continuing COVID-19 outbreak. Deceptively declared as “plastic synthetic flakes,” the contaminated plastic waste materials, which arrived in July and […]
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Government to regulate environmentally harmful plastic packaging, tyres, e- […]
Massey University’s Political Ecology Research Centre is delighted by the Government’s decision to declare plastic packaging, tyres, electrical and electronic products (e-waste), agrichemicals and their containers, refrigerants, and farm plastics “priority products”. The Ministry for the Environment invited Dr Trisia Farrelly to speak at the launch at Remarkit in Porirua yesterday on behalf of the New Zealand Product […]
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Current discussions on European Commission Guidelines could jeopardize EU s […]
In 2019, the European Union (EU) adopted landmark legislation on single-use plastics, requiring EU countries to ban certain single-use plastics, reduce the consumption of others and put in place extended producer responsibility schemes. This was a major step in moving away from single-use plastics and reducing plastic pollution. The European Commission is now developing guidelines […]
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