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Plastic and Petrochemical-Fueled Derailment Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S. One Month Ago Today

March 03, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic US

Community Members Still Demanding Answers About The Health Impacts Caused By Norfolk Southern’s Releasing And Burning Of Toxic Plastic-Making Chemical: Vinyl Chloride READ MORE

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BREAKING: Toxic Chemical Spill Threatens BFFP Members in Ohio & Pennsylvania

February 10, 2023 by Comms Hub

Last Friday, a “bomb train” including five train cars filled with vinyl chloride, most commonly used to make PVC and other toxic plastics, derailed along the border between the States of Ohio and Pennsylvania in the U.S.READ MORE

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Comprehensive Federal Legislation Addresses the Plastic Pollution Crisis

March 25, 2021 by Brett Nadrich, US Communications Officer

The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2021 builds upon state and local laws across the country with proven plastic reduction strategies.READ MORE

550 Groups Ask Biden to Solve Plastic Pollution Crisis With Eight Executive Actions (English / Español)

December 08, 2020 by

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Lithuania’s advances in restricting the use of plastic bags

March 14, 2023 by Domantas Tracevičius, Ziedine Ekonomika

Domantas Tracevičius, founder of Ziedine Ekonomika in Lithuania and BFFP core member, sat down with Kasparas Adomaitis, Member of the Environmental Protection Committee at the Parliament of Lithuania, to ask him about Lithuania’s advances in restricting the use of plastic bags.

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Petrochemicals & Climate, Plastics & Health, Press Release, Spotlight

Plastic and Petrochemical-Fueled Derailment Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S. One Month Ago Today

March 03, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic US

Community Members Still Demanding Answers About The Health Impacts Caused By Norfolk Southern’s Releasing And Burning Of Toxic Plastic-Making Chemical: Vinyl Chloride

Petrochemicals & Climate Plastics & Health Press Release Spotlight

Press Release, Petrochemicals & Climate

Calling Asian countries top plastic polluters is waste colonialism

March 03, 2023 by BFFP Asia Pacific

A misleading graphic on marine plastic pollution circulating on social media presents several Asian countries as top contributors to ocean plastic wastes without context and acknowledgment of what creates this scenario. Perpetuating the misleading framing that countries in Asia are the main contributors to plastic pollution in the oceans distracts from the real causes of plastic pollution as well as the solutions we need.

Press Release Petrochemicals & Climate

New McDonald's study attempts to water down EU ambition on reuse

February 28, 2023 by Comms Hub

Environment NGOs regret both short-sighted approach ignoring well researched solutions, and lack of substantiated data and transparency

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March 23

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March 20

#EastPalestine dioxin levels are at 700 ppt.

2010 EPA guidelines found an increased cancer risk at just 3.7 ppt.

Yet ...the federal and state cleanup threshold is 1,000 ppt, so there is no legal requirement for US or Ohio EPA to test and remove that soil.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/17/norfolk-southern-derailment-east-palestine-ohio-carcinogenic-chemical-levels

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