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.
The Latest on Beyond plastic
Millions of tiny plastic pellets are being dumped into our waterways
Turning plastic waste into plastic lumber isn’t recycling
Updates
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
Featured Resources
Trash in America
10 steps Whole Foods can immediately take to reduce single-use plastic
Reducing plastic waste in the states
Refill, Return, Reimagine: Innovative Solutions to Reduce Wasteful Packaging
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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Can I recycle that?
Tens of thousands of Americans call on the FTC to prohibit the use of the word "recyclable," the chasing arrows recycling symbol, or other statements that imply a product is recyclable on products that cannot be recycled.
More than 52,000 Americans to FTC: Crack down on misleading recyclability claims
We submitted more than 52,000 comments to the Federal Trade Commission, asking that the agency take the common sense set of prohibiting the use of the word "recyclable," the chasing arrows recycling symbol, or other statements that imply a product is recyclable unless the item is actually recyclable.
How your Earth Day gift will protect the wildlife and wild places we love
By making a gift to our Earth Day 2023 Drive, you’re standing up to protect our natural world, from the North American boreal forest all the way to a favorite forest closer to home. Will you join us?
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.
The label says ‘widely recyclable.’ Is it true?
If a form of plastic isn't accepted by most community recycling programs, how can the plastics industry still claim it's “widely recyclable”?
