Let’s Work Together –
For a World Free of Plastic Pollution

From microbeads to plastic bags to Styrofoam and more, we’re teaming with hundreds of thousands of people all over the planet to work for upstream Solutions to plastic pollution.

Our latest campaign and movie is all about the plastic microfibers that are shed when we wash our yoga pants, fleeces… even our underwear. It’s a big problem, and we’re bringing together thousands of people to demand accountability, transparency, and real Solutions.

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Beverage industry: Stop Fueling the Plastics Crisis

Millions of plastic bottles are polluting our environment -- but they don’t need to. Container deposits can virtually eliminate littered bottles but the beverage industry is blocking the solutions. Join us in calling out Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestle to support container deposits!

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Microfiber Pollution?

What’s great about these questions—beyond their expressions of heartfelt desire to do the right thing—is that they offer an opportunity to think about both where the best place to intervene is and who has responsibility for that intervention.

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Join our Community: Stop Plastic Pollution!

Plastics are choking marine life, our waterways, and our bodies. The latest study shows that since large-scale plastic production began in the 1950s, 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced. Join us to get the latest updates on plastics and opportunities to push for solutions!

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Microfibers: Small Plastics, Big Problem

Rewind six years to 2011. I was on a sailboat with a team of maverick researchers from the 5 Gyres Institute trying to answer a simple question about plastic pollution: “How much is out there?”

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Connecting the Threads: Microfibers Research

The research presented in these papers shows that estimated 1.4 million trillion plastic microfibers are a huge problem–both for our oceans and marine biodiversity as well as for our own bodies.

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