#EndPlasticPollution
#endplasticpollution #innovation #pollutionsolutions 🫶🏽

Fantastic idea! The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish

"People can trade a kilogram (2.2lb) of plastic waste for a full meal"

www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish
Garbage cafes are springing up across India. The BBC visits the city of Ambikapur to find out how much impact they can really have on plastic – and people.
www.bbc.com
September 16, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#EndPlasticPollution

🚨 If the news about microplastics being found in human brains during autopsies didn’t get you to cut plastics out of your life maybe this will:

Microplastics Could Be Turning Bacteria into Drug-Resistant Superbugs

www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...
Another Possible Risk of Microplastics? Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
Microplastics are seemingly everywhere—and now growing research suggests they could be breeding grounds for drug-resistant bacteria
www.scientificamerican.com
September 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
California can lead the way & help #EndPlasticPollution. @governor.ca.gov: It's time to uphold the promise you made when you signed #SB54 -- the most ambitious and comprehensive plastics law in the world: "Our kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts." #leadership
The Monterey Bay Aquarium is calling on Governor Gavin Newsom to uphold Senate Bill 54, or the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. SB 54 shifts the burden of plastic waste from everyday people to the companies that produce it. Read more: mbayaq.co/4oIVQw0
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🌍🚫 #PlasticsTreaty talks collapsed at INC 5.2 in Geneva. Despite majority support, a small group blocked progress. In the words of Karuna Rana:
“No treaty is better than a weak treaty. The fight isn’t over — plastic pollution is a health, ocean & climate crisis.” 💪
#INC5 #EndPlasticPollution
August 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
#EndPlasticPollution

Fantastic artist's statement about the plastic crisis!

"Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks"

apnews.com/article/plas...
Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks
As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations…
apnews.com
August 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Ask your city to ✔️Require 🥡🟢compostable takeout containers

✔️5¢ fee on 🛍️

#EndPlasticPollution

“big picture: Plastic makers—
oil/gas co’s—

spent millions marketing to Americans that plastic items
could be recycled♻️
…there wasn't a market for it.”
Most 🗑️landfilled

dec.ny.gov/environmenta...
August 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
🏆🏅protect 30% for Nature
✔️Montreal Treaty

#EndPlasticPollution made from #FossilFuels

How? Ask your City to

1 boycott buying plastic/
ban 1x use 🥤🧃plastic pkg

2 pass 5¢ bag fee🛍️

3 🎯
📈reusable
📉plastic

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

🖼️🖌️ Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social

4/4
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
❇️ The session is not over — it has been adjourned to a further date. Think of it as hitting “pause”.

❇️ For the first time in a binding treaty process, the new Chair’s text (15 August 2025) includes explicit references to LRGs (Articles 7.2(a) and 17).

#EndPlasticPollution #PlasticPollution
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 PM
According to Earth Day, lobbyists outnumber scientists 4-to-1 at the Plastics Treaty talks.

"Lobbyists from ExxonMobil, Dow, & the American Chemistry Council are not just showing up… They’re sitting inside national delegations from Egypt, Kazakhstan, China, Iran..."

Are you going to address this?
August 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
According to Earth Day, lobbyists outnumber scientists 4-to-1 at the Plastics Treaty talks.

"Lobbyists from ExxonMobil, Dow, & the American Chemistry Council are not just showing up… They’re sitting inside national delegations from Egypt, Kazakhstan, China, Iran, Chile, & the Dominican Republic."
August 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Thank you, 😊🙏😁 for birds & their habitat

@katharinehayhoe.com has good news & not-so-good news on #Climate solutions

✅do 1 more Next Step
To solve #climare faster

✅Copy NYC 5¢ plastic bag fee
Ask your city

dec.ny.gov/environmenta...

@unep.org
✅Aug 14 treaty to
#EndPlasticPollution
August 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
"Der Text ist ein Geschenk an die petrochemische Industrie und ein Verrat an der Menschheit"

(Kurzfristige) Wirtschaftliche Interessen sind offensichtlich wichtiger, als eine halbwegs lebenswerte Erde... 🤦‍♂️

#UNPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...
UN-Konferenz in Genf: Abkommen zu Plastikmüll droht zu scheitern
UN-Konferenz in Genf: Plastikmüll soll verringert werden. Doch ein neuer Entwurf droht das Abkommen zu kippen. Es folgt scharfe Kritik
www.zdfheute.de
August 14, 2025 at 11:50 AM
We can do 💚🌎More
on #Climate

As we work thru anger, would you be strategic? What can you say—stronger
📣Call to action?
🏟️What orgs can you tag?

1 cut 80% of 57Gt CO2e

2 copy
MN passed $750off ebike rebate; 15,000 applied for $2M fund

3 UN #EndPlasticPollution treaty Aug 14

4 $0.5T harm ^2
August 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"Young people are on the frontlines of social & environmental movements."

Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez of #Panama acknowledges youth potential in "moving mountains" and demanding for ambitious action to #EndPlasticPollution.
August 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
For more than 50 years the plastics industry knew recycling plastic wouldn't work. But it allowed them to keep growing and not change their model. Don't believe anything fossil fuel or plastics people tell you. #EndPlasticPollution #bioplastics
‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows
Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.
www.desmog.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
#EndPlasticPollution by Aug 14

“Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty”

•2022–formed
after countries agreed to “end plastic pollution”

•research done for treaty

•🆔 16,325 chemicals
in plastic products
2025 🔑analysis/journal Science

•use health metrics
@repamandahj.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 1:09 PM
#EndPlasticPollution treaty by Aug 14

•phase out 🤢toxins
•cap 📉production, not 📈3x it
•pay 🗑️to cleanup existing waste
•only 9% plastic ♻️now recycled

High Ambition Coalition
70 countries want
ambitious, intl, legally binding
agreement

Norway & Rwanda Aug 2022
+
Canada
Peru
Senegal
South Korea
UK
August 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📢🌍 On day 5 of #INC52 in Geneva, civil society staged a silent protest over the lack of progress in the #PlasticsTreaty.

💰 interests still outweigh human rights ✊ and 🌱 protection.
⏳ Time is running out.

#ClimateJustice #EndPlasticPollution
August 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Have you read 📚books? on
How to #EndPlasticPollution

List of
•kids books
•adult non-fiction

www.beyondplastics.org/book-club

📗Grass Isn’t Greener

📙Change Starts Now

📕Year of No Garbage

📘The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times/Goodall
The Beyond Plastics Book Club — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
www.beyondplastics.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What else can we do?
#EndPlasticPollution

36% 📦packaging
Incl 🥤🥡
•ask your City to require comparable♻️ takeout containers
•ask your city for 5¢ 🛍️bag fees

Farming
•Bring bags to grocery
•buy local & seasonal foods

Fishing

Clothes-avoid
•polyester
•acrylic
•nylon

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
August 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Day 4 of Global Plastics Treaty & world's biggest polluters out in force. Number of biggest polluters attending END PLASTIC POLLUTION TALKS is worrying. For years COCA COLA, PEPSI, MARS & NESTLE have dominated Dirty Dozen polluters 😡

#EndPlasticPollution
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
#NoMoreDirtyTricks
Big plastic polluting brands spotted at Global Plastics Treaty
As the Global Plastics Treaty talks heat up, the big plastic polluters are back at the table. We’re giving a special mention to these big brands.
www.sas.org.uk
August 7, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Worth a read. UN global treaty discussing #EndPlasticPollution

“Many delegates, advocacy groups, UN officials are hopeful 10-day session
📆today - Aug 14,
will result in a final agreement

•cut production?
•phase out toxic chems?

Russia & oil producers block progress

Do nothing?
3x waste📈📈📈
9%♻️
grist.org Grist @grist.org · Aug 6
Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks.
Delegates are meeting in Geneva for a sixth — and potentially final — round of negotiations.

grist.org/internationa...

#Plastic #Geneva #Oil #Climate #FossilFuels #Environment
Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks
Delegates are meeting in Geneva for a sixth — and potentially final — round of negotiations.
grist.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
#EndPlasticPollution #EndFossilFuels

🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨

Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not

Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...
August 5, 2025 at 6:51 PM