Ditch plastic packaging: Shop at your local refillery
A wave of new retail businesses are eliminating single-use plastic packaging entirely, showing us what a future with dramatically less plastic could look like.
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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Millions of tiny plastic pellets are being dumped into our waterways
Turning plastic waste into plastic lumber isn’t recycling
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Lobby day secures bipartisan support for the Plastic Pellet Free Water Act
Clean water groups urge Congress to tackle microplastics
Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act reintroduced in Congress
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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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Statement: New bill will tackle large threat posed by tiny plastics
An estimated ten trillion pellets enter oceans each year
To reduce waste, Target should phase out plastic bags
To eliminate plastic waste, we need retailers like Target to do their part by phasing out plastic bags.
Environment Connecticut 2024 Legislative Agenda
Environment Connecticut works for clean air, clean water, clean energy and a sustainable climate. Our legislative agenda urges lawmakers to prioritize protecting more places where nature can thrive, and ensuring a livable climate for future generations. Here are our 2024 legislative priorities.
Good news: Bag bans are reducing billions of single-use plastic bags
A recent report found that state- and city-wide bans successfully reduce plastic bag use and associated litter and pollution.
NEW REPORT: Analysis finds bag bans effective at reducing plastic waste, litter
Plastic Bag Bans Work, a new report released Thursday by U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group, estimates that, on average, plastic bag bans similar to those studied can eliminate almost 300 single-use plastic bags per person, per year.