The sooner we get single-use plastics out of our national parks, the better
The Interior Department can move faster on removing single-use plastic products from our national parks.
Beyond plastic
To spare birds, fish and other wildlife from the harm caused by plastic pollution, we’re raising our voices for a world with less single-use plastic products.
Maybe you’ve seen the video of a sea turtle with a plastic straw stuck in its nose, or the headlines about whales washing ashore with stomachs full of plastic. With so much plastic pollution floating in the ocean, it’s too easy for wildlife to mistake it for food — and too often, they pay the price with their lives. The good news is that more people, communities, states and companies are moving away from the single-use plastics we don’t even need. Because after all, nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our environment and threaten wildlife for hundreds of years.
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Our plans for moving beyond plastic in 2023
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421 pounds of trash pulled from confluence of S. Platte and Cherry Creek
Colorado House advances bill to ban plastic bags, take-out foam
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Did You Know?
Scientists have found plastic fragments in 44% of all seabird species, 43% of all marine mammal species and 100% of sea turtle species.
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Uniting States Against Plastic
Together, we can move states, and our country, beyond plastic.
Colorado legislature passes bill to reduce plastic packaging, boost recycling
The bill aims to reduce plastic packaging and improve Colorado’s lagging recycling system, creating the infrastructure to collect and reuse valuable glass, aluminum and paper and incentives for large companies to reduce the amount of non recyclable and unnecessary packaging that comes wrapped around products.
Producer Responsibility Recycling Bill Passes the CO House of Reps.
The bill will reduce plastic packaging and transform Colorado’s dismal recycling system, creating the infrastructure to collect and reuse valuable glass, aluminum and paper and the incentives for large companies to reduce the amount of non recyclable and unnecessary packaging that comes wrapped around products.
Producer Responsibility Recycling Bill Passes first committee
HB22-1355 would reduce packaging and transform Colorado’s recycling system, providing convenient recycling services to all Colorado residents and returning valuable materials to businesses to reuse
Working together to “break up” with plastic pollution
We need policy and corporate actors to work together to curb our plastics problem.