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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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THE NEW COAL: PLASTICS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
The New Coal: Plastics and Climate Change is a comprehensive account of the United States plastics industry’s significant, yet rarely acknowledged contributions to the climate crisis. Using coal-fired power plants as a benchmark, the report examines ten stages in the creation, usage, and disposal of plastics: fracking for plastics, transporting and processing fossil fuels, gas […]
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The Climate Emergency Unpacked: How Consumer Goods Companies are Fueling Big Oil's Plastic Expansion
The report highlights how global brands like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé are driving Big Oil's expansion of plastic production, threatening the global climate and communities worldwide.
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Amazon's Plastic Problem Revealed
Oceana analyzed e-commerce packaging data and found that Amazon generated 465 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2019. The report also found that Amazon’s estimated plastic packaging waste, in the form of air pillows alone, would circle the Earth more than 500 times. Oceana estimates that up to 22.44 million pounds of Amazon’s plastic […]
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Choked, Strangled, Drowned: The Plastics Crisis Unfolding In Our Oceans
Many tragedies in the ocean go unobserved, and the ones caused by plastic are no different. The plastics crisis is deep, wide and pervasive, affecting ecosystems and animals in ways we are only beginning to understand. In this report, Oceana has compiled for the first time the available data on plastic ingestion and entanglements in […]
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BREAKING: Toxic Chemical Spill Threatens BFFP Members in Ohio & Pennsylvania
February 10, 2023
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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.
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We are now plastic farmers
December 10, 2022
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Devayani Khare, Project Communications Officer - Asia Pacific and Pui Yi Wong, Project Coordinator - Waste Trade (Asia-Pacific)
The human cost of waste colonialism
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To Stop Plastic Pollution, Single-use Plastics Production Must Stop
September 22, 2022
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Environment activists in Asia call for real solutions to plastic pollution in a demonstration during the 7th International Marine Debris Conference
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Member in the Spotlight: CIEL
August 12, 2022
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Rachel Radvany on why the Global Plastics Treaty matters for youth around the world
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