The Entangled Fates of Plastics and Climate Change (2025) Published: 8 July 2025 Policy Brief The oil, gas, and petrochemical industry wields substantial power in both the climate and plastics treaty negotiations, and has used that power to stymie progress in both. Rather than repeat the failures of the climate negotiations, plastics negotiators should seek to create a “plastics club” for ambitious action.
Fracking for Plastics: Exposing the Supply Chain Behind the Global Plastic Crisis (2025) Published: 18 May 2025 Report, Interactive Map A new investigation exposes the toxic supply chain fueling global plastic production, shedding new light on the critical players driving the plastics and climate crises. The findings were used to build the Fracked Plastics Map, an interactive tool that traces the connections between more than 25 major consumer brands and petrochemicals sourced from fracking.
The Great Global Nurdle Hunt 2024 - Report Published: 24 October 2024 Report The report presents numbers and figures of the 2024 Great Global Nurdle Hunt. Nurdles are plastic pellets produced from fossil fuels, recycled or biobased material. Each year, due to mismanagement across the entire supply chain and a lack of regulation, over 445,000 t of nurdles spill into the environment around the world, making them a major source of primary microplastic pollution.
Taking the Shine off SHEIN: A business model based on hazardous chemicals and environmental destruction (2023) Published: 26 June 2024 Report The Chinese online fashion brand SHEIN has promoted fast fashion to ultra fast fashion. It’s built on the exploitation of the environment and people, relying on the lack of enforcement of protection regulations for the environment as well as workers and consumers.
Crude Couture: Fashion Brands’ Continued Links to Russian Oil (2023) Published: 26 June 2024 Report This investigation underscores the pivotal role the fashion industry plays in perpetuating fossil fuel dependency and signals a concerning lack of action to break ties with Russian oil – through which the fashion brands are indirectly funding petrochemical expansion and the war in Ukraine.
Poisoned Gifts - From donations to the dumpsite: textiles waste disguised as second-hand clothes exported to East Africa (2022) Published: 26 June 2024 Report Global fashion brands are promoting circularity, but in reality that's still a myth. Nowhere is the failure of fast fashion more visible than in the countries where many of these cheap clothes end up: on huge dump sites, burnt on open fires, along riverbeds and washed out into the sea, with severe consequences for people and the planet.
The Fraud of Plastic Recycling: How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis (2024) Published: 26 June 2024 Report The report shows how Big Oil and the plastics industry have deceptively promoted recycling as a solution to plastic waste management for more than 50 years, despite their long-standing knowledge that plastic recycling is not technically or economically viable at scale.
Convention on Plastic Pollution - Plastic Treaty Essential Elements: Financial Aspects (2022) Published: 28 July 2023 Position Paper This part of the Plastic Treaty Essential Elements series explains why the financial aspects of a global agreement on plastic pollution should be addressed head-on as an essential element to achieve its objectives.
Plastic Atlas Published: 21 October 2019 Atlas The Plastic Atlas provides facts and figures about the world of synthetic polymers. ➢ Download or order now!
Official Trailer: Big Oil's Last Lifeline - Hip Hop Caucus Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Video Big Oil's Last Lifeline (2022) A 3-part docuseries sounding the alarm on environmental racism and the petrochemical industry. Its toxic trail puts people in the Southern US at risk of losing their lives for the greed and profit of a dirty business.
The Plastic Atlas: Facts & Figures about the World of Synthetic Polymers - Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Watch on YouTube This external content requires your consent. Please note our privacy policy. Video Plastic Atlas (2021) The Plastic Atlas has the hard facts, data and figures to prove that the story of plastic that industry is telling us is a myth.