Petrochemicals & Climate

Over 99% of plastic comes from fossil fuel. The plastic pollution crisis is intertwined with the climate crisis and vice versa. Learn more from the movement’s Plastics and climate campaigns.

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Toxic Tours

#breakfreefromplastic Toxic Tours is a community-led storytelling and mapping experience on the impacts of plastic production on frontline communities. The Tours elevate local voices and ensure that community fights are amplified. Take the Toxic Tours, Take Action.

Winter is Coming

A case for turning off the petrochemical industry’s plastic production tap to reduce European Union’s dependency on fossil fuels and Russia

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Reports

Plastic Sachet: Small Packets with Huge Environmental Destruction

People become concerned about the fatal crisis of plastics due to their detrimental effects on the environment as well as human health. Although plastic sachet products are considered one of the fuels for the existing plastic pollution, no previous study is found about the use and impacts of these small sealed packets from the perspective of Bangladesh.

Plastic and Climate Change

Plastic is a significant contributor to climate change throughout its lifecycle. By 2050, emissions from plastic alone will take up over a third of the remaining carbon budget for a 1.5 °C target. A plastics treaty must impose legally-binding plastic reduction targets.

Plastic Pollution and the Planetary Emergency

The report pulls together recent scientific data on the broad impact of plastics on climate, biodiversity, human health, the environment, and planetary stability to ‘sound the alarm’ on the pollution caused by plastics throughout their lifecycles. ‘Connecting the Dots’ makes recommendations on how to design and ensure effective, long-term and collaborative global policy which considers […]

The story of reWINE

In the wine industry, single-use glass is heavily used for packaging. On the one hand, glass has the greatest environmental impacts compared to other packaging materials (i.e. PET, aluminium, and beverage carton). On the other hand, glass is 100% reusable and 100% recyclable at the end of its life cycle, and is an inert material, […]

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Toxic Tours

#breakfreefromplastic Toxic Tours is a community-led storytelling and mapping experience on the impacts of plastic production on frontline communities. The Tours elevate local voices and ensure that community fights are amplified. Take the Toxic Tours, Take Action.

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News

Press Release, Corporate Accountability, Petrochemicals & Climate, Policy

PH fisherfolk to corporations and governments: end single-use plastics, adopt a strong plastics treaty

June 02, 2023 by BFFP Asia Pacific

In celebration of National Fisherfolk Day and amid INC-2 negotiations for global plastics treaty, Philippine fishing communities and civil society organizations held a creative picket and protest calling on fast moving consumer goods (FMCGs) companies to stop using plastics in their product packaging, and urged governments to adopt a strong plastics treaty.

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Press Release, Petrochemicals & Climate, Policy, Real Solutions

Australia quietly reopens plastic waste exports while, UNEP “Turns on the Tap” for burning plastic waste in cement kilns: Policy desperation on the eve of Plastic Treaty negotiations

May 23, 2023 by BFFP Asia Pacific

A joint statement by Zero Waste Australia, Ecowaste Coalition, Nexus 3 Foundation, Consumers' Association of Penang and Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH) on Australia's waste exports policy.

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Plastic and Petrochemical-Fueled Derailment Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S. One Month Ago Today

March 03, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic US

Community Members Still Demanding Answers About The Health Impacts Caused By Norfolk Southern’s Releasing And Burning Of Toxic Plastic-Making Chemical: Vinyl Chloride

Petrochemicals & Climate Plastics & Health Press Release

Press Release, Petrochemicals & Climate

Calling Asian countries top plastic polluters is waste colonialism

March 03, 2023 by BFFP Asia Pacific

A misleading graphic on marine plastic pollution circulating on social media presents several Asian countries as top contributors to ocean plastic wastes without context and acknowledgment of what creates this scenario. Perpetuating the misleading framing that countries in Asia are the main contributors to plastic pollution in the oceans distracts from the real causes of plastic pollution as well as the solutions we need.

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