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What you can do

We just have to make less plastic

The Washington Post: If so, you’re actually not recycling.

The Atlantic: They’re harmful to health, environment, and human rights—and now poised to dominate this century as an unchecked cause of climate change.

Amazon could be the model for change

Get manufacturers to pick up the recycling tab

Plastic production and pollution impact public health, the environment, and the climate and it has reached crisis levels around the world.

In 2016 the study estimates the U.S. contributed between 1.1 and 2.2 million metric tons of plastic waste to the oceans

Exposure is far higher than previously thought and effects plastic food containers

Plastic is in the food we eat, the water we drink, and the air we breathe. 

Outlawing single-use plastics in pristine landscapes that are home to iconic plant and animal species is part of Kenya’s green agenda

 The toxicity contained in the plastic enters the water.

Once you throw something away, you’ve got to think about where’s it going to go next”

Why have Coke and other beverage companies fought so hard against bottle bills

 Not only a waste problem, it is a climate problem as well

Goal of eliminating bottled water production

There is already way too much plastic that won’t decompose

Single-use-plastics – from straws to retail bags – will be illegal in Vermont by Summer 2020.

Global investigation reveals America’s dirty secret.

Researchers in France found thousands of microplastic particles raining down on a secluded spot in the Pyrenees, 75 miles from the nearest city.

Now that other countries won’t take our papers and plastic, they’re ending up in the trash.

From Plastics 101 and the Environment to Science and Innovation.

Every animal tested had plastic pollution hiding in its gut.

In the next 60 seconds, people around the world will purchase one million plastic bottles and two million plastic bags. By the end of the year, we will produce enough bubble wrap to encircle the Equator 10 times.

Microplastics were found in sea salt several years ago. But how extensively plastic bits are spread throughout the most commonly used seasoning remained unclear. Now, new research shows microplastics in 90 percent of the table salt brands sampled worldwide.

After 65 years of making plastic, we've pretty much mastered the art. What we haven't yet figured out is what to do with plastic once we're done with it.

Yes, plastic straws are bad, but they’re just a teeny drop in the giant ocean of plastic we’re swimming in. Here are other everyday plastic objects that we could put on the discontinued list.

Every minute, every single day, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic enters our oceans. In the name of profit and convenience, corporations are literally choking our planet with a substance that does not just “go away” when we toss it into a bin.

Ever since China announced last year that it no longer wanted to be the “world’s garbage dump,” recycling about half of the globe’s plastics and paper products, Western nations have been puzzling over what to do when the ban went into effect, which it did on Jan. 1.