This week, California’s elected officials voted down both a ban on plastic bags and a ban on Bisphenol-A (BPA) in plastic baby bottles, sippy cups and baby formula containers. Thanks to the millions spent by lobbyists for the American Chemistry Council, Dow, and Exxon to defeat these bills, now every Californian knows just what the acronym BPA means; why BPA should never be allowed in baby products;...

On January 6, Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report aired an interview with Captain Charles Moore, a pioneer of the study of plastic pollution in the ocean, the founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, a TED speaker, an EPA Environmental Hero Award winner, and the world’s most recognized activist against plastic pollution. Captain Charles Moore is an advisor to the Plastic Pollution...

Author and scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson, founder of Shifting Baselines, just released a video interview with PPC advisor Captain Charles Moore. Don’t miss the last part of the video where the estrogen-disrupting effects of plastic transform Charles Moore into a voluptuous Charlotte Moore.