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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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 […]

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.

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 […]

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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News, Petrochemicals & Climate

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

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

Waste Imports News Petrochemicals & Climate Plastics & Health Policy

Corporate Accountability, Petrochemicals & Climate, Policy, Press Release

To Stop Plastic Pollution, Single-use Plastics Production Must Stop

September 22, 2022 by admin

Environment activists in Asia call for real solutions to plastic pollution in a demonstration during the 7th International Marine Debris Conference

Corporate Accountability Petrochemicals & Climate Policy Press Release

Member Stories, Petrochemicals & Climate, Plastics & Health

Member in the Spotlight: CIEL

August 12, 2022 by admin

Rachel Radvany on why the Global Plastics Treaty matters for youth around the world

Member Stories Petrochemicals & Climate Plastics & Health

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