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

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!

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Spotlight

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.

OUR GOAL

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.

ABOUT BFFP

Recent Posts

Member Stories, Plastics & Health

Breaking with the Culture of Disposability: CESTA and the Collective Effort Against Plastic

August 31, 2026 | Break Free From Plastic LAC

In El Salvador, plastic is everywhere: in shopping, homes, and farmlands, but also on the streets and in storm drains, where it accumulates when the rains come. In the face of a “use-and-dispose” culture, the Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technology (CESTA in Spaish)—the country’s first environmental organization—has spent more than two decades promoting a different approach to waste management and, for the past ten years, has been linking that effort to the global Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement.

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Press Release, Waste Trade

Two New Studies Link Recycling Facilities in Kuala Langat, Malaysia to Severe River Water Pollution and Community Health Complaints

August 21, 2026 | Comms Hub and Devayani Khare

The Environmental & Occupational Health Society (EOHS) studies offer some of the first community-level evidence on the potential public health and environmental footprint of Malaysia's plastic and paper waste recycling sector.

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News, Policy, Press Release

Break Free From Plastic Members Denounce Plastic Treaty Negotiation Chair’s Text, Citing Weak Watered Down Measures

August 18, 2026 | Break Free From Plastic

Ahead of the anticipated resumption of negotiations for the Global Plastics Treaty, Julio Cordano, Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, shared an informal reference document titled "Aid to Negotiations." In response, members of the Break Free From Plastic movement have denounced the Chair's text, citing weak, watered-down measures.

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Campaigns

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!

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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.

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Corporate Accountability

Nigeria Brand Audit

Across 8 cities and 7 states, nine #BreakFreeFromPlastic Nigerian member organizations embarked on a nationwide plastic brand audit between 2018 to 2024, auditing 298,174 pieces of plastic waste, exposing the dominance of sachets, plastic bottles, and major multinational polluters such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo in Nigeria’s plastic waste streams.

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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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