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Deception by the Numbers

Despite decades of deceptive industry marketing, we know we can’t recycle our way out of the plastic pollution crisis. But the companies making and selling plastic—and their trade association surrogate the American Chemistry Council—aren’t giving up. Instead, they’re doubling down to mislead investors, governments, and the public into believing we can.

Making GHG accounting work for climate – recommendations for accounting methodology for Recycled Carbon Fuels

A policy briefing to act as guidance for the European Commission in light of their proposals on accounting methodology for potential greenhouse gas emissions from so called ‘recycled carbon fuels’.

Our Ocean Needs Action Not Promises: Towards a Regulatory Approach to Prevent Plastic Pellet Loss in the EU

Plastic pellets are the second largest direct source of microplastic pollution to the ocean, and are known to cause serious harm to ocean life. This briefing outlines the urgent action that we recommend the European Commission should take to ensure that all pellets are handled responsibly across the plastic supply chain, drastically reducing this major […]

Plastic Industry Awareness of the Ocean Plastics Problem

Plastics Industry Awareness of the Ocean Plastics Problem is the third in an ongoing series, Fueling Plastics, that examines the links between plastics and fossil fuels.

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Australia quietly reopens plastic waste exports while, UNEP “Turns on the Tap” for burning plastic waste in cement kilns: Policy desperation on the eve of Plastic Treaty negotiations

May 23, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic Asia Pacific

A joint statement by Zero Waste Australia, Ecowaste Coalition, Nexus 3 Foundation, Consumers' Association of Penang and Ecological Alert and Recovery Thailand (EARTH) on Australia's waste exports policy.

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Plastic and Petrochemical-Fueled Derailment Disaster in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S. One Month Ago Today

March 03, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic US

Community Members Still Demanding Answers About The Health Impacts Caused By Norfolk Southern’s Releasing And Burning Of Toxic Plastic-Making Chemical: Vinyl Chloride

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Calling Asian countries top plastic polluters is waste colonialism

March 03, 2023 by Break Free From Plastic Asia Pacific

A misleading graphic on marine plastic pollution circulating on social media presents several Asian countries as top contributors to ocean plastic wastes without context and acknowledgment of what creates this scenario. Perpetuating the misleading framing that countries in Asia are the main contributors to plastic pollution in the oceans distracts from the real causes of plastic pollution as well as the solutions we need.

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BREAKING: Toxic Chemical Spill Threatens BFFP Members in Ohio & Pennsylvania

February 10, 2023 by Comms Hub

Last Friday, a “bomb train” including five train cars filled with vinyl chloride, most commonly used to make PVC and other toxic plastics, derailed along the border between the States of Ohio and Pennsylvania in the U.S.

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