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Youth Ambassador from Brazil face off two biggest brand audit polluters

December 16, 2022 by Rafael Eudes

Brazil is one of the biggest countries in the world, and according to a study from Oceana, it is responsible for dumping at least 325,000 metric tons of plastic every year in the ocean.READ MORE

Waste Imports, News, Petrochemicals & Climate, Plastics & Health, Policy

We are now plastic farmers

December 10, 2022 by Devayani Khare, Project Communications Officer - Asia Pacific and Pui Yi Wong, Project Coordinator - Waste Trade (Asia-Pacific)

The human cost of waste colonialism READ MORE

News, Policy, Press Release

Civil society and rightsholders ask UNEP for a more meaningful multi-stakeholder engagement process and to keep polluters out of global plastics treaty negotiations

November 26, 2022 by Comms Hub

A United Nations Environment Programme-organized Multi-Stakeholder Forum on plastics concluded today, offering recommendations to the first Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting on the Global Plastics Treaty.READ MORE

Corporate Accountability, Press Release

COP27 Sponsor The Coca-Cola Company named worst plastic polluter for five years in a row according to 2022 Brand Audit

November 15, 2022 by Comms Hub

Activists commemorate 5-year Trashiversary by organizing actions and return-to-sender activities in front of top polluter offices to call for a global plastics treaty READ MORE

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Parliament vote passes a full ban on plastic EU waste exports

February 10, 2023 by Bethany Spendlove Keeley, Europe Communications Officer

In January 2023, the European Parliament voted on the report tabled by MEP Weiss on the Regulation for the shipment of waste. The Rethink Plastic alliance and the Break Free From Plastic movement applaud the outcome.

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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.

News Petrochemicals & Climate

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Global Day of Action: see how youth are addressing the top plastic polluters

February 09, 2023 by Rafael Eudes

Break Free From Plastic youth ambassadors send back trash to the top polluters in their cities.

Corporate Accountability Member Stories Youth

Member Stories, Real Solutions

Reuse Revolution: Overcoming Barriers in Southeast Asia

February 01, 2023 by Eah Antonio, Asia Pacific Communications Officer

Reuse is not only about reusable cups and canvas bags, but entire systems that require standards, infrastructure, political will, financing, and promoting behavioral change.

Reuse systems address single-use plastics (SUPs) pollution by reducing the demand for SUPs and in the longer term, reducing the production of SUPs.

Member Stories Real Solutions

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