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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The label says ‘widely recyclable.’ Is it true?
Our plans for moving beyond plastic in 2023
Updates
Bill to phase out polystyrene foodware, PFAS from food packaging advances to the Senate floor
Bill to to modernize Oregon’s health code to enable reuse passes Oregon Senate
Oregon lawmakers and advocates celebrate “Rise Above Plastic Pollution Day” in Salem
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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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Sysco, the world’s largest food distributor, should stop using harmful single-use plastic
Sysco delivers wholesale food to a wide variety of businesses including restaurants, hotels and hospitals — but in the process, its use of plastic packaging is contributing to the plastic pollution crisis that kills 1 million marine animals every year.
Five things the Oregon legislature can do to tackle plastic pollution in 2023
Here are five policies that the Oregon legislature could pass in 2023 to prevent plastic pollution and help create an economy in which we produce less waste, build products that last and can be reused or repaired, and recycle the rest.
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Statement: Canada Bans Single-Use Plastics
The Canadian government has announced that it will ban the manufacture and import of most single-use plastic products in December 2022 and the sale of these products as of December 2023.
The problem with polystyrene foam
For the past few years, Environment Oregon has been working to build public support to ban polystyrene foam takeout containers and cups in Oregon. A question that we sometimes get asked is– why polystyrene? This blog post explores the answer to that question.
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Meiffren-Swango
Celeste
Meiffren-Swango
State Director, Environment Oregon