Plastic waste clogs landfills, it gets shipped offshore and incinerated, or chokes our waterways, coasts and oceans. Plastic never goes away, it just breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces. It’s in the air we breathe, the food we eat and has even been found in our blood. Plastic bottles are the worst culprits and they can be replaced. Every year in Aotearoa, big corporations like Coca-Cola sell around one billion throwaway plastic bottles. We’re calling for a ban on single-use plastic bottles in Aotearoa. Will you join us?
Ban the bottle petition
Sign on now to call on the government to ban throwaway plastic bottles and mandate for reusable alternatives:
More Greenpeace actions you can take
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Tell the government to protect hoiho penguins
Speak up today to support the call for zero bycatch of endangered hoiho penguin and protect their habitat.
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Don’t invest in ocean destruction
This is a warning to all potential investors in Manuka Resources: Don’t bankroll ocean destruction! Seabed mining will never take place in Aotearoa.
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Contact your electorate MP
Our local Member of Parliament (MP) represents us, and acts in our name. Use the list of MPs below to contact your own local MP on the environmental issue that you’re passionate about.
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PETITION: Stop the corporate power grab RMA reforms
Add your name now to demand Chris Bishop abandon his dangerous RMA reform plan.
Get involved with Greenpeace
There are lots of ways to get involved with Greenpeace. Create your own campaign, contact the Greenpeace office to see if you can volunteer or find a job in an office or onboard a ship.
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Rainbow Warrior Auckland Open Days 2025
This July, the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior returned to Aotearoa, 40 years after French Government agents bombed the original ship in Auckland.
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Volunteer with Greenpeace
Join a team of passionate volunteers & demand change today. Find out about volunteering in one of New Zealand’s largest environmental organisations.
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Greenpeace desktop and mobile calendar downloads
Here’s a small gift for June 2024 – a digital calendar you can use on your desktop or phone. This month, we’ve chosen a beautiful shot of a humpback whale in the Indian Ocean.
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Monthly wallpaper downloads
For December, enjoy a free digital wallpaper featuring the iconic red-billed gull – NZ’s iconic chip thief!
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Greenpeace desktop and mobile calendar downloads
Here’s a small gift to start 2023 – a digital calendar and wallpaper you can use on your desktop or phone. For October, we’ve chosen a majestic polar bear, photographed north of Svalbard.
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Become a Greenpeace volunteer
Put your hand up to volunteer for Greenpeace Aotearoa! Sign up today and take action for the planet
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Donate
Donate to Greenpeace today. We take no money from corporations or governments. Our independence and ability to speak and act freely is our greatest strength. To maintain that freedome, we rely on the generosity of people like you to keep us in action.
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Defending Nature – Acts of resistance to the Luxon Government’s war on nature: a timeline
The National-ACT-NZ First coalition was sworn in in late November 2023 – and wasted no time launching an all-out war on nature, unleashing a relentless onslaught of anti-environment initiatives. You…
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Plastic pollution: The crisis choking the oceans and marine life
Plastic waste invades every corner of our planet, and threatens sea life. But there’s still hope for a future free from plastic pollution.
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People of the world vs COP30
Outside the official negotiations of the COP30 international climate talks taking place right now in the Brazilian Amazon multitudes of people are speaking up for a just climate future.