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Beyond recycling: rethinking plastic from the ground up
by Matt Franklin | July 11, 2018
This interview was originally published by the Green European Journal and can be found online in full here. Plastic has climbed high up the EU agenda in 2018, with the European Commission publishing its plastics strategy in January and a proposal for a directive on single-use plastics in May. Yet the fight for action against […]
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Global Leaders Enable Dangerous Waste Burning Practices in G7 Plastics Charter
by Dawn Marie Elisse Mundo | June 18, 2018
June 13, 2018 – The G7 Ocean Plastics Charter, signed by five nations, has already been criticized as “tepid,” and inadequate to the scale of the plastic pollution problem. Despite advocates calling for governments to set clear, binding targets for reduction of virgin plastics, the G7 charter embraces weak “end of pipe” waste management approaches. Advocates around […]
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Anything but Reduction: The American Chemistry Council’s Empty “Circular Economy” Promises
by admin | May 24, 2018
Wednesday, May 23, 2018–This month, the American Chemistry Council, representing the plastic producers most responsible for the plastic pollution crisis–Dow, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP, ExxonMobil Chemical Company, Procter & Gamble, Chemicals Division, among others– has pledged to recycle or “recover” 100% of plastic packaging by 2040. First and foremost, we cannot wait until 2040. The plastic pollution […]
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Resin Industry Takes First Tentative Step to Deal with Plastic Pollution
by admin | May 16, 2018
The plastic pollution crisis has finally resulted in a wakeup call, albeit weak and tentative, by U.S. plastic resin producers. The American Chemistry Council’s plastics division issued a press release May 9 pledging to alter production of plastic packaging to make it all recyclable or recoverable by 2030, and to work to actually recycle or recover it by […]
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This Earth Day, It’s Time to #EndPlasticPollution
by admin | April 22, 2018
Our oceans, river systems, marine animals, and health are being threatened by a pollutant that’s all around us, yet sometimes invisible to the eye: plastics. Whether it’s an empty bag of chips floating in a nearby stream or microplastics ingested by both humans and marine animals, plastics have become a ubiquitous and destructive commodity. As […]
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