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Plastic pollution is a gender justice issue.
Join GAIA & BFFP Africa this #InternationalWomensDay for:
Poisoned by Plastic: Plastic Pollution through a Gender Justice Lens
🗓️ 9 March
⏰ 12PM GMT
📍 Zoom https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/_OVUjwCcTcOzuCdYzEnfBQ#/registration
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a hearing about the RMP online on Tuesday, March 10th.
This is our opportunity to SPEAK OUT and demand the EPA prioritize protecting people’s lives over the chemical industry’s profits.
RSVP for Tuesday: usepa.zoomgov.com/meeting/regi... (3/3)
The White House is trying to gut the Risk Management Program (RMP) that oversees 12,000 of the most hazardous facilities in the country.
More than 50% of U.S. residents live in a worst-case-scenario chemical disaster zone for these RMP facilities. (2/🧵)
🧪💥 A life-threatening chemical disaster happens every 2.5 days in the U.S. Right now, the system that protects us from chemical disasters is under attack, and workers, first responders, and frontline communities are at the greatest risk. ❤️🩹 A thread ...
theguardian.com/environment/... (1/🧵)
A new guide from Community Legal Help And Public Interest Centre outlines practical strategies for Environmental Human Rights Defenders to push back against abusive lawsuits and defend the defenders.
Protecting the environment should never be a crime.
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
🚨 WATCH LIVE 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyGD... Right now, #BreakFreeFromPlastic Members with @momscleanairforce.org are bringing together experts to present how plastics and petrochemicals harm all of us, especially children's health. Learn more about the science and what you can do to take action!
This #WorldWildlifeDay, let’s stand with wildlife and #BreakFreeFromPlastic. 🦈🦅🐒
Plastic has reached even the deepest, farthest, and highest places on Earth
We need real solutions: cutting plastic production, holding corporations accountable, and scaling reuse systems.
"Beth Gardiner is right to argue that plastic is not merely a recycling failure (‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics, 19 February). It is something far more consequential: an oil growth strategy." #PlasticPollutes
Waste workers play a vital yet underrecognized role in managing waste and recycling. ♻️👤 A strong #PlasticsTreaty is an opportunity to facilitate a mandatory just transition for workers along the plastics lifecycle. ✊
Learn more: breakfreefromplastic.org/plastics-treaty
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
#Malaysia just took a powerful step to protect its people and environment. 🛑
The government imposed an absolute ban on e-waste imports and is considering a moratorium on plastic waste imports.
Read the statement from Sahabat Alam Malaysia: consumer.org.my/sam-cap-welc...
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
Scientists agree that microplastics are everywhere. They're in our oceans, our food, and even in our bodies. 🌊🥗🧠
There’s no debating it. WE NEED LESS PLASTIC, MORE REAL SOLUTIONS NOW. ⚠️🚨
@earthworks.bsky.social
#microplastics #healthylife #plasticfree
In just minutes of heating, #plastic containers can release hundreds of thousands of #microplastic & nanoplastic particles to your food! 🥣😬
This is just one of the shocking findings in @greenpeace.org's new report on plastic-packaged meals.
#PlasticsTreaty #BreakFreeFromPlastic
While corporations keep selling us "convenient" single-use packaging, communities around the world are already doing what works: reuse, refill, repair. 🫙✂️🔁
Head on to breakfreefromplastic.org to learn more about our vision of a future free from plastic pollution. 🌍
Addressing the plastics crisis should integrate a human rights-based approach. 👥
Learn more about the plastics crisis: breakfreefromplastic.org
Plastic pollution is not only an environmental issue but also a human rights issue. From extraction of fossil fuel, production, manufacturing, use, recycling, and up to disposal. 🛢️🏭
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #WorldSocialJusticeDay #HumanRights
🔍 Unmasking the brands behind Nigeria’s Plastic Problem. New Report Out!
Nine #BreakFreeFromPlastic Nigerian member organizations embarked on a nationwide #plasticbrandaudit between 2018 and 2024.
Read the full report: brandaudit.breakfreefromplastic.org/nigeria-bran...
📊 The data is in. A new report featuring a comprehensive dataset on plastic waste in Nigeria is out now!
Read the full report: https://brandaudit.breakfreefromplastic.org/nigeria-brand-audit-report/
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #BrandAudit #PlasticBrandAudit
We're especially grateful to be in partnership with our friends and colleagues representing First Nations and Indigenous community groups.
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #ToxicPlastics #EnvironmentalProtectionAct
Victory! Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal upheld the federal government’s authority to classify plastic-manufactured items as “toxic” under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, setting the stage for future regulation of plastic products.
#ToxicPlastics
A future without plastic pollution is POSSIBLE, but we need to address the plastics crisis with REAL solutions and not false promises and greenwashing. 🟢
Visit breakfreefromplastic.org to learn more.
#BreakFreeFromPlastic
From microplastics in the air to rivers classified as “unsuitable for any use,” the evidence is clear: plastic waste dumping is poisoning people and ecosystems in silence.
#WasteTrade #BreakFreeFromPlastic
What does the global plastic waste trade really cost?
New peer-reviewed research from EOHS in Banting, Malaysia exposes the toxic reality behind so-called “recycling.”
📢 Click through the images to learn more. 🧵👇
#WasteTrade #BreakFreeFromPlastic
