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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.

Supermarket Audit
Supermarket Audits

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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Fossil Fuel and Petrochemical Lobbyists Overrun Plastics Treaty Negotiations INC-5.2

Industry presence threatens plastics treaty integrity at INC-5.2 as 234 lobbyists affiliated with the fossil fuel and petrochemicals industry registered to participate at the resumed fifth round of negotiations for a global legally binding agreement to end plastic pollution. The following press release was originally published by the Center for International Environmental Law on www.ciel.org.

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Making the invisible visible: how researchers are using cartoons to explain the hidden harms of plastic pollution

Plastic pollution requires scientific research to guide effective solutions. The French research group GDR collaborated with scriptwriter Capucine Dupuy and illustrator Bobika to turn their findings into humorous, accessible cartoons - a collaboration we discussed with Professor Mathieu George and Capucine Dupuy.

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Break Free From Plastic Reacts to UN Special Rapporteur’s Concerns Over Coca-Cola’s Packaging Practices in Samoa

Since switching to disposable plastic packaging, the company has been contributing one-third of the plastic bottle waste in the island country.

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Global Plastics Treaty
Global Plastics Treaty

Since 2022, more than 170 countries have been negotiating the world’s first-ever global plastics pollution treaty. The fifth and last scheduled round of negotiations took place from 25 November to 1 December 2024 in Busan, Republic of Korea.

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Toxic Tours

Join the communities on the frontlines from petrochemical build outs upstream to landfills and incinerators downstream. See firsthand how plastic devastates natural ecosystems, and destroys people’s health, livelihoods, and peace of mind.

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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.
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Regulatory landscape for plastics in Latin America and the Caribbean reveals uneven legislative coverage and a need for effective implementation

October 29, 2025 | Break Free From Plastic

The Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) and the Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement present an unprecedented analysis of plastics-related policies in Latin America and the Caribbean. This report seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of legislative progress in the region.
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Corporate Accountability, Press Release

Can Supermarkets Do More In Fighting Plastic Pollution? The World's First Supermarkets Audits Seem to Indicate So.

September 16, 2025 | Comms Hub

A new report audited 247 retailers in 27 countries to determine how supermarkets are contributing to or preventing plastic pollution with their business practices.
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News, Real Solutions, Reuse

Reuse Day: Turns Rental Cups and Bulk Detergent to A Movement for Reuse

August 26, 2025 | Plastic Free China

The first Reuse Day in China was successfully held in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, with the aim to advocate reuse, reduce plastic waste and cut carbon emissions.
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Supermarket Audit

Stores' untapped potential in fighting plastic pollution

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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Policy

Manifesto for a Future Free from Plastic Pollution

Groups and civil society organizations around the world are calling for a Plastics Treaty that reclaims our right to a healthy environment.

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Policy

INC 5.2 Mobilization 2025

This August: A Crucial Chance to End the Age of Plastic. From August 5 - 14, governments from around the world will gather in Geneva to negotiate a historic global treaty to end plastic pollution. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to confront the plastic crisis at its source.

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