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The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global, strategic alliance of individuals, organizations, and businesses working together to end plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on people, animals, and the environment. Plastic pollution is an emerging environmental problem of dramatic proportions. In every stage of its existence, plastic is toxic and creates pollution. It is a material that the Earth cannot digest, and once produced, it stays with us forever. We focus on ending our reliance on single-use and disposable plastics and one bridging like-minded activists and organizations on six continents. The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a project of Earth Island Institute in Berkeley, California, USA.
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WIN! ⚖️ 👏 A judge has ruled that elected officials in #CancerAlley, an 85-mile petrochemical corridor, broke Louisiana's open meetings law by secretly meeting with a company seeking to build a chemical plant. #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Plastic pollution isn’t just about individual choices—it’s about the systems that treat our natural world as something to be traded, sold, and discarded without consequence.🥤Unlike natural materials, plastic goes back into #Earth as a contaminant, endlessly polluting—WITHOUT regenerating, nourishing, or supporting Earth’s natural cycles that sustain us. The Earth is not a resource to exploit. It's our home. How we treat it is how we treat all living things. 🌊 🦜 🌺 #BreakFreeFromPlastic! #PlasticPollutes #PlasticPollution
Today, most modern buildings, homes, and furniture are made primarily from plastics, including plastic appliances; plastic foam mattresses, chairs, and couches covered in plastic fabric; plastic rugs and other furnishings; to plastic flooring, paints, PVC pipes, roofing, siding, and other building materials. 🏡 Even yards are filled with plastics like synthetic lawns and plastic outdoor furniture. 🛋️ The result is a landscape largely made of plastic. And when wildfires burn through areas where people live, plastics and their thousands of toxic chemicals add fuel to the fire—polluting Earth’s air, soil, and water. 🌎 Plastic is harming people and the planet. And it’s making the long-term impacts of climate crisis disasters like wildfires worse. ⚠️ We can no longer bear the burden of the heavy cost of cheap plastics. #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic #Wildfires #PlasticPollution
⚠️💧 Plastic is a major threat to drinking water safety at all times, but especially during wildfires. Toxic runoff and melting plastic pipes that release toxic chemicals can make water unsafe to drink for months after a fire. #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticFreePipes
Every day we are faced with news of the climate crisis, the global plastics crisis, injustice, war, and more. 🌎️ With so many imminent threats to our environment and world happening all at once, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. But there are solutions and there is hope! 🕊️🪱🦚🪷🐳🌈 For words of encouragement, we recommend watching our webinar “The Power of Service: Moving from Anxiety to Action for the Planet,” with Maya Penn, Dr. Britt Wray, and Heather White. 🔗 https://shorturl.at/kDUjF #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic #PlasticPollution #ClimateAnxiety
Informative read on reducing hazardous chemicals in supply chains from Bill Walsh, ED of Safer Chemistry Impact Fund
Hazardous chemicals in supply chains remain a critical challenge, but progress is happening. In his latest piece, Bill Walsh, Executive Director of the Safer Chemistry Impact Fund, shares how consumer demand, investor pressure, and corporate innovation drive safer, more sustainable practices. He writes, "It has never been easier for brands to anticipate, meet, or exceed the expectations of critical stakeholders, ensuring steady progress toward safer chemistry in the foreseeable future." Discover the strategies leading companies like Walmart, The Home Depot, and Apple are using to reduce risks and future-proof their brands:
Eye on primates: Plastic pollution is one of many human-made problems now threatening nonhuman primate survival in the wild. Many of these primates are critical to the ecosystems in which they live, but where there are humans, there is plastic. We must take action to protect these creatures from the harms of plastic pollution. #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic
Plastic is a major driver of climate change, contributing an estimated 4% annually to global greenhouse gas emissions. Everyone’s collective work to stop plastic pollution and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels is incredibly important—especially in the face of devastating climate disasters. The LA wildfires remind us of this urgency, but also the power of communities coming together. ❤️🩹 Whether it’s neighbors or strangers, people are helping each other, showing that humanity can do good. We can all continue to work toward solutions that don't harm the planet, and ones that protect one another and all living creatures. Photo by Lilian Chou #PlasticPollutes #BreakFreeFromPlastic #LAWildfires #Hope