Boycott Plastic! - Don't Buy, or Use Plastic! (2nd post)

Image via WikipediaPerhaps our work to ban plastic is beginning to work. A Plastic Pollution Coalition has been formed. Disposable plastics are the greatest source of plastic pollution (sign The REFUSE Pledge). Designed to be discarded, cigarette filters, straws, plastic bottles, plastic utensils, lids, plastic bottles and so many others offer a small convenience but remain forever. REFUSE disposable plastics! Follow the “4 Rs” of sustainable living: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

The Plastic Pollution Coalition is a global alliance of individuals, organizations and businesses working together to stop plastic pollution and its toxic impacts on humans, animals and the environment.

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With its work, Plastic Pollution seeks to put plastic pollution at the forefront of global social, environmental and political discourse.

Celebrities like Jack Johnson, Benicio del Toro, and Jackson Browne are lending their media-clout to the problem of excessive plastic pollution currently choking our oceans and killing innocent wildlife. These prominent actors and musicians have improvised their own creative REFUSE disposable plastic videos and posted them on Plastic Pollution Coalition's website and YouTube channel. The short spots encourage people to refuse disposable plastic bags, cups, utensils, and straws—the biggest sources of plastic pollution.

Plastic Pollution Coalition provides a platform for collaboration and coherent communications; increases awareness and understanding of the problem and sustainable solutions; and empowers action. (Membership organizations, as at November, 2010):

• 5 Gyres Project

• Adventure Ecology

• Algalita Marine Research Foundation

• Apollo Alliance

• Around the Americas

• Art From Scrap

• Artists for a New South Africa

• Bash The Trash Environmental Arts

• Beach Plastic

• Bioneers

• BLUE Ocean Film Festival

• Blue Ocean Institute

• Breast Cancer Fund

• Bring Your Own

• Californians Against Waste

• Center for Safe Energy (центр по безопасной энергии)

• Clean Water Action

• COARE

• Costa Salvaje, Mexico

• Corporate Accountability International

• Create Plenty

• The David Brower Center

• Earth Resource Foundation

• Ecology Center

• Ecousable

• Environment California

• Environmental Working Group

• Everychild Foundation

• The FMLY

• Girl Scouts of the USA

• Global Reef Fund, Canada

• Green An-hui Enviromental Development Center, China

• Green My Parents

• Greenpeace USA

• Green Prophet

• Green Sangha

• Heal the Bay

• Imaging Foundation

• International Pellet Watch

• Kokua Hawaii’s Foundation Plastic Free Hawaii Campaign

• Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

• Marine Mammal Conservation Through the Arts

• Marine Plastic

• Mongol Environmental Conservation, Mongolia

• National Building Contractors, Inc.

• NextNow Collaboratory

• NOAA’s Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

• Ocean Aid

• Ocean Gybe

• Ocean Revolution

• Oikonos Foundation

• Okeanis

• O’Neill Sea Odyssey

• Operation USA

• Pebble in the Pond Environmental Society, Canada

• Plastic Planet, Austria

• Plastic Pollution Texas

• Plastic Promise

• Pronatura Noroeste, Mexico

• Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, Mexico

• Rise Above Plastics

• Rock the Earth

• Sailors for the Sea

• Save Our Shores

• Save The Bay

• Sealife Conservation

• Sea Studios Foundation

• Save our Seas Ocean Racing, Australia

• Students Acting for the Environment, Japan

• Surfrider Foundation

• Surviving LA

• Tara Expeditions

• Texas Campaign for the Environment

• The Clean Oceans Project

• The Endocrine Disruption Exchange

• The Ocean Foundation

• Think Beyond Plastics

• Trash Patch

• Trash for Teaching

• Wild Coast

• Witness

• Whole Children, Whole Planet

See also:

Fake plastic fish ... Live life with less plastic: Plastic-Free Living Guide. Our oceans are filling up with plastic: plastic that harms wildlife and never biodegrades; plastic that enters the food chain and leaches toxic chemicals. This blog is a record of my journey to live with as little unnecessary plastic as possible. Won't you join me? Fake plastic fish may be cute, but if we keep filling up our oceans with plastic, they could be the only kind we have left ...

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