We are pleased to announce Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) support for Plastic Free Campuses! The agency has awarded funding to Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) and four other mission-driven organizations, all members of PPC—the Product Stewardship Institute (PSI), As You Sow, the Clean Water Fund, and the California Product Stewardship Council (CPSC)—to collaborate on a plan to expand the...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month is an annual health campaign that is promoted every October to increase awareness of the disease. Progress has been made in achieving earlier detection, better treatment, and longer lives. But in spite of this progress, millions of women are still afflicted by this disease. In fact in the U.S., 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer during their lifetime. The...

Plasticity forum is a full one-day conference within Rio+20, designed to inspire, excite, and help move the world to follow the innovative leaders who use plastic in new ways, with new solutions, helping to reduce the impact that plastic has on our environment if full life-cycle options are not implemented. The forum showcased solutions to the issues of plastic waste in our environment, including...

Today we attended UNEP’s event titled “Marine Litter: Preventing Our Oceans From Becoming Dumps”. The event was organized by UNEP’s GPA, i.e. “Global Programme for Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from land-Based Activities“. The key speakers were Jane Lubchenko – replaced by an senior official in NOAA; Doug Woodring – Co-founder...

Today at Rio+20 is Oceans Day. The discussions are organized by Global Oceans Forum; GEF, SOA, China, World Bank, World Oceans Network and many other groups. Oceans are highlighted as one of the United Nation’s seven focal areas. The event opened with a reflection on the accomplishments in the past twenty years, as well as a discussion on how to mobilize political will, people and resources to...

A gigantic art installation downtown San Jose, Costa Rica raises awareness about the environmental damage caused by plastic pollution. The installation is called La Ola Plastica (‘The Plastic Wave”) and will be officially unveiled onTuesday 8th of May by the City Mayor, Mr. Johnny Araya, and Ms. Daniella Russo, our Executive Director. Preserve Planet, a local NGO and regional partner of Plastic...

We are very pleased to announce the recent addition of author and organizer Bill McKibben to our list of notable Coalition members. Bill is the founder of the grassroots climate change campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. These rallies draw attention to issues related to climate change, including the use of fossil fuels, greenhouse gas emissions, and...

Want to lose weight, reduce your risk for heart disease and cancer, and ward off diabetes? Start by putting down that soda and skipping the canned soup during your next supermarket visit. These products and health concerns might seem like they have nothing in common, but they’re all united by a single chemical compound that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shamefully failed to ban from food...

Plastic Pollution Coalition joins Breast Cancer Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, Environmental Working Group, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and many other organizations in a call on FDA to ban BPA.  The move is supported by Martha Stewart, Jeff Bridges, Bonnie Raitt, Rosanna Arquette, Hillary Swank, Fran Drescher, Ed Begley, Jr., Mario Batali, Jackson Browne and many other notable...

Plastic Pollution Coalition welcomes the publication of Marine Debris as a Global Environmental Problem: Introducing a solutions-based framework focused on plastic. This report is significant for three main reasons: It is clearly focused on plastic as the both the main component and the main problem of what has been euphemistically referred to in previous documents as “marine debris.” It...