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Report Finds Plastics and Food Packaging Pose Global Health Threat, Nearly 200 Groups Call for Urgent Action
Nearly 200 environmental and public health organizations released an urgent Call to Action in response to a peer-reviewed consensus statement signed by 33 world-renowned scientists. It warns that chemicals used in food packaging pose numerous threats to human health.
Greenpeace recycling report: plastics recycling isn’t working, but this creates new opportunities for reduce and reuse
Plastics recycling isn’t working, but this creates new opportunities for reduce and reuse.
What you can do in your community
Ready to be a part of the solution? Join us in taking the trash out of food, from city to city and coast to coast.
What the SF is a reusable foodware ordinance?
How do we turn off the tap of plastic pollution for a whole community? See what we are up to in San Francisco!
Plastic Exposed and the UNWRAPPED conference
Learn about Plastic Exposed and the UNWRAPPED Conference in June, 2019.
The story behind throw-away-free
Find out why UPSTREAM is creating Throw-Away-Free Places and Communities.