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July 20th, 2020 at 5:43 pm PSTJuly 20, 2020 This week's latest news and updates: Uniting for a Just Recovery during Plastic Free July As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, people around the world are demonstrating that a life free from unnecessary plast ...
BFFP Newsletter: Plastic Free July, Fighting Plastic Bag Pollution in Europe, Reuse & Refill on the Rise, and more!
July 10th, 2020 at 2:57 am PSTUniting for a Just Recovery during Plastic Free July As the world continues to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic, people around the world are demonstrating that a life free from unnecessary plastic and disposable material is still possible. This ye ...
BFFP Newsletter: COVID-19 and Brazil’s waste pickers, Plastic Bag Diet TikTok Challenge, Honoring Juneteenth, Europe recovery funding for local and green jobs, and more...
June 26th, 2020 at 7:00 am PSTBrazil Members Mobilize for Waste Pickers Impacted by COVID-19 COVID-19 isn’t only a public health crisis, but it’s highlighting social inequality around the world. The pandemic has left many groups in Brazil vulnerable including the 800,000 was ...
#BreakFreeFromPlastic Newsletter: In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter
June 12th, 2020 at 3:09 am PSTIn Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter Eight days after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, the Break Free From Plastic movement issued an official statement reaffirming the unequivocal truth that Black Lives Matter, and joining ...
Open Letter to UK Government against Ineos bailout, BFFP’s Yvette Arellano in The New York Times, Proper handling of COVID-19 waste in hospitals, and more!
May 29th, 2020 at 10:54 am PSTOpen letter: No bailout for petrochemical giant Ineos! Scientists and activists, brought together by #breakfreefromplastic changemaker Andy Gheorghiu, Policy Advisor at Food Water Ac ...
COVID-19 Bangladesh waste report, Break Free from Plastic webinar, Ducor pellet clean up, and more...
May 15th, 2020 at 7:00 am PSTESDO’s latest report on COVID-19 wastes in Bangladesh According to a recent report published by the Environment and Social Development Organization (ESDO), in Bangladesh, at least 14,500 tons of waste including used gloves, masks, sanitizer contai ...
Plastic-free Campuses Virtual Launch, supporting waste workers on International Workers Day, and the systemic decline of Big Oil!
May 1st, 2020 at 2:33 am PSTSAVE THE DATE: May 7th for the Plastic-free Campuses Virtual Launch! We’re going virtual! As one of the banners in the recent climate strikes illustrate, ‘leaders behave like children and children behave like leaders.’Amid these difficult time ...
Wastepicker rights during COVID-19, Story of Plastic EARTH DAY premier, #BringYourOwnBoxChallenge and more...
April 17th, 2020 at 7:00 am PST15 million informal waste workers and their families risk losing their livelihood due to the current pandemic. The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the way we handle our waste and its impact on those that are most vulnerable to its exp ...
Going plastic free during Covid-19, Indian waste pickers, and a plastic-pellet victory
April 3rd, 2020 at 6:00 am PSTIn this difficult time, our deep gratitude goes out to the health-care workers, grocers, delivery men and women, waste workers and everyone who is working around the clock on the frontlines of this crisis. As the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the w ...
Join the call for Philippines single-use plastic ban, plastic free towns around the world, and #OceanHeroes...
March 6th, 2020 at 7:00 am PSTIt’s no surprise that single-use plastics (SUP) are a major source of pollution in Southeast Asia and one of the biggest hurdles towards achieving Zero Waste. #breakfreefromplastic members in the Philippines are actively working for a legislation t ...