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Plastics industry exploits coronavirus to prop up single-use plastic
Upstream's response to the Plastic Industry Association's push for more single-use plastics.
The dirty truth about disposable foodware
Overbrook report details the economic costs to businesses and cities from disposable foodware.
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.
The Break Free From Plastic Act 2020: A bill to sustain the States beyond single-use stuff
Redistributing the weight of plastic pollution from communities & consumers to corporations.
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!
Bay Area local governments working together on solutions to throw-away
Bay Area Local Governments meet to develop solutions to throw-away.