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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50+ New England groups call on Whole Foods to put planet over plastic
Maine’s plastic bans go into effect as state enacts producer responsibility legislation
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Trash in America
10 steps Whole Foods can immediately take to reduce single-use plastic
Reducing plastic waste in the states
The Whole Foods Plastic Problem
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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Hundreds of voices are speaking up for big blue
More than 250 community leaders joined the movement to protect our oceans by signing up to become “Voices for Our Oceans.”
Amazon is destroying unsold products by the thousands
A recent investigation uncovered a bombshell for our environment over at Amazon: The company is destroying millions of unused or returned products.
Maine governor signs groundbreaking waste reduction bill into law
Gov. Janet Mills signed LD 1541, which holds producers responsible for their packaging waste, into law on Tuesday. The new law will establish a program called Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging, which will require big corporations to shoulder a large percentage of the costs of recycling and waste disposal programs in the state.
Statement: Target’s new plastic packaging goal is a step in the right direction
The Fortune 50 retailer Target announced a new goal Tuesday to reduce its use of virgin plastic 20 percent by 2025 across its own brand frequency products.
Environment Maine supports Producer Responsibility legislation
On May 10, 2021, Environment Maine's State Director Anya Fetcher testified before the Environment and Natural Resources Committee in support of LD 1541, a proposed bill to hold producers of plastic packaging fiscally responsible for the recycling and landfilling of their products.