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A critical article on how academic interventions often serve as a smoke screen to obscure pollution, injustice, and accountability.

Amy Youngman and Sedat Gündoğdu

Leaked CEO letter prompts opposition from broad alliance of environmental and health advocates defending landmark Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.

Bethany Spendlove Keeley, Europe Communications Officer

As the Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement marks its 10th anniversary, we highlight how the work of Fronteras Comunes from Mexico demonstrates that collective action can elevate local demands to the global advocacy arena

Break Free From Plastic LAC

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.

Break Free From Plastic

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

Break Free From Plastic