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Tips to reduce your plastic waste - WWF-UK

To avoid these plastics, try loose leaf tea which can be used with a strainer, or reusable teabags. Alternatively, look for brands that are taking action to ...

Address climate change by going plastic free - Hennepin County

Be thoughtful about where and how often you shop to cut your plastic footprint. You don't have to spend a lot of time or money to avoid plastic. There is always ...

End Plastics - Earth Day

End Plastic Pollution highlights the impacts of plastic pollution on human and ecosystem health and how everyday actions can lessen the problem.

The Solution to Plastic Waste? Stop Making New Plastic.

Joseph Winters explains some of the environmental impacts of high plastic use, and identifies how U.S. policy could be used to address the ...

Plastic Pollution Coalition: Home

Join us in creating a just, equitable world free of plastic pollution & its toxic impacts.

Single-Use Plastics 101 - NRDC

Buy in bulk. Avoid individually packaged goods, like snack packs. Zero-waste shops, which are becoming more popular, even encourage you to bring ...

Plastic-Free to Save our Sea - Point Defiance Zoo

But we can stop the tide. Our plastic. polluting the ocean. Humans generate ... The implications to human health of microplastics being contained in the food we ...

Stop microwaving plastic — here's why | University of California

Requiring manufacturers to use at least 30 percent recycled materials for some kinds of plastic, eliminating unnecessary single-use plastics, ...

Reduce plastic use at home—for the planet's health and ours

Wool, cotton, rayon (often branded as Modal), and silk are natural fibers to look for. Plastic containers can be reused for years on end (but ...

Stopping Single-Use Plastics - Sailors for the Sea

To stop plastic from entering our oceans, we must reduce the amount of single-use plastic being produced at the source.

Protect Our Planet from Plastic Pollution: 5 Things to Know

“[It] would be a first-of-its-kind agreement to unite the world around a shared goal to end plastic pollution,” he explains. Hobert agrees ...

Plastics: Why we must act now - WWF-UK

A full plan to ban avoidable single use plastics by 2025 – such as plastic cups and cutlery – could make the real difference we need to protect the planet.

Plastic Pollution Facts | PlasticOceans.org/the-facts

Packaging is the largest end-use market segment accounting for just over 40% of total plastic usage. Annually, approximately 500 billion plastic bags are used ...

Plastic Pollution - Oceana USA

... plastic straws only be provided at the customer's request. Expanded ... Oceana campaigns to stop plastic pollution at the source — by working to ...

The plastic problem isn't your fault, but you can be part of the solution

And, she says, bring your own containers to avoid using the plastic bags provided by the grocery store. Chhotray discovered that small ...

Alliance To End Plastic Waste

Driving solutions for change to advance a circular economy for plastic, we combine experience and expertise to replicate, build, and scale solutions that ...

U.S. Actions to Address Plastic Pollution - State Department

To prevent marine debris, the Program forms partnerships across the ... being scaled by Clean Cities, Blue Ocean, local governments, or ...

How to reduce the impacts of single-use plastic products - UNEP

When consumers can't avoid SUPPs, they should mitigate their environmental impact by reusing them when possible instead of immediately disposing ...

How you can reduce plastic waste - DCCEEW

Say no to disposable plastic cutlery, plastic straws and other single-use plastics. Avoid plastics that cannot be recycled if other alternatives ...

To stop plastic pollution, we must stop plastic production, scientists say

A recent study in Science has suggested that plastic pollution can only be cut by about 80% over the next 20 years if all possible solutions ...