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The plastic industry and corporations are driving the expansion of plastic production and are the top plastic polluters. The plastic-producing petrochemical industry is the largest driver of the increased demand for oil and gas globally. It fuels the climate crisis and has disastrous impacts on communities and ecosystems worldwide. Large multinational fast-moving consumer goods corporations use huge quantities of virgin plastic for single-use plastic packaging.

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Cover: Limits to Plastic Growth: Towards a global cap on primary plastics production (2024)

Limits to Plastic Growth: Towards a global cap on primary plastics production (2024)

Limiting the global production of primary plastics is necessary to curb greenhouse gas emissions as well as the environmental and health impacts of plastic pollution. This report proposes one possible approach.

Website: Trash Hero - Edcuate Yourself on Zero Waste (2024)

Trash Hero - Edcuate Yourself on Zero Waste (2024)

Many people think zero waste is just about reducing waste but it’s actually much more than that. It’s about our health, the climate and about taking care of the planet. The free online course to learn about the real solutions to plastic pollution.

Cover: Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap, Phase One Report (2024)

Plastic Money: Turning Off the Subsidies Tap, Phase One Report (2024)

This interim report represents the first comprehensiveattempt to address significant information gaps regarding the level of subsidisation received by theprimary plastics polymer (PPP) production industry.

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The Fraud of Plastic Recycling: How Big Oil and the plastics industry deceived the public for decades and caused the plastic waste crisis (2024)

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.

Amazon's United States of Plastic (2024)

Amazon, after phasing out single-use plastic packaging in major markets including India and Europe, is refusing to commit to do the same in the U.S. — its largest and home market — as well as in other countries the company operates in where marine plastic pollution is a significant problem.

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Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution (2024)

There is a clear and strong linear relationship between companies’ annual production of plastic and their branded plastic pollution. Phasing out single-use and short-lived plastic products by the largest polluters would greatly reduce global plastic pollution.

Text: Louisiana Mapping Portal on a slightly animated, interactive map

Louisiana Mapping Portal

This online ‘mapping portal’ offers a new tool to local residents and their allies to investigate the transformation of the land from ‘Plantation Country’ to the ‘Petrochemical Corridor’. Locals breathe some of the country's most toxic air and suffer one of the highest risks of cancer and other serious health ailments.

Cover of "Uncovered: Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it (2023)"

Uncovered: Unilever’s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it (2023)

In this report, Greenpeace International exposes the blight of Unilever’s single-use sachets on low-income communities and the glaring gap that exists between what the company says it will do, and what it actually does.

Website Screenshot of "Pushing Back - A Giode for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion"

Pushing Back: A Guide for Frontline Communities Challenging Petrochemical Expansion

This guide is an informational resource for communities facing the threat of petrochemical production and expansion. It informs community leaders, organizers, and attorneys of the risks and impacts of petrochemical production and use, and ways to raise concerns about existing or proposed facilities.

Cover of "The Greenwashing Hydra"

The Greenwashing Hydra

Corporate greenwashing involves a company enhancing – or fabricating – the environmental impact of its services and products. According to this report, this practice has become increasingly sophisticated, taking many different forms.

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