we are in a plastic crisis Plastic pollution is everywhere: from city streets to Arctic ice to microplastics in our air, water, food, and bodies. Only 9% of plastic ever made has been recycled. The rest is burned, buried, or is left to pollute our environment. And yet, the plastics industry plans to ramp up…
we are in a plastic crisis This is a fight that we can’t afford to lose. Here’s why this work is so important—and how we plan to stem the tide. Plastic pollution is everywhere we look, smothering our oceans and poisoning communities around the world. Meanwhile, Big Plastic only plans to expand production. We need…
About this movie Did you know that humans have produced more than 8.3 billion tons of plastic in the last 70 years and 91% of which have not been recycled? This means that almost all of the plastics ever produced are in a landfill, have been incinerated, or somewhere else in our environment causing destructive…
Last month, legislators voted to advance the California Circular Economy and Plastic Pollution Reduction Act, representing what would be the most comprehensive state-wide legislation in the US to reduce plastic pollution. It would phase out nonrecyclable single-use plastics, and redefine what’s truly recyclable. This is the basis we need for a circular system — with…
Until 2018, 4000 shipping containers of trash were exported from the US to China daily. As the environmental costs of importing plastic have crystallized, and one country after another bans plastic imports, we’ve seen a desperate scramble from Western countries to find new places to send their trash. As this new long-term reality sets in,…
Protecting Our National Parks The national parks have been sabotaged for years under the Trump Administration. Now they are under the leadership of Secretary Deb Haaland, the long-overdue first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary and an environmental champion in her own right. Native Peoples have been stewards of the land and national…
