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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.

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

Major Banks Backing Risky U.S. Petrochemical Expansion Despite Mounting Legal and Financial Warnings

During his visit to Mexico, he calls on authorities to use scientific evidence to inform and create effective regulatory standards and public policies

This year, BFFP is celebrating a decade of collective work promoting real solutions to plastic pollution. In Latin America, Instituto Pólis—a Brazilian civil society organization with over 30 years of experience addressing urban, social, and environmental issues, and where BFFP took its first steps in the region—has played a key role in this process.