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This Girl Scout is Tackling Plastic Pollution!
Greenpeace’s strength has always come from people power. We are made stronger and successful because of the passion and dedication from the supporters who are on our team. We’d like…
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Greenpeace Report: Packaging Away the Planet
The entire lifecycle of plastic production, use, and disposal is destroying our communities and environment.
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Packaging Away the Planet
Packaging Away the Planet evaluates 20 large U.S. grocery retailers for the first time on their efforts to eliminate single-use plastics. Across the board, supermarkets are failing to adequately address…
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Nestlé’s plastic monster spews pollution at company’s U.S. headquarters
Washington, DC – Greenpeace activists joined a 15-foot tall monster in a visit to Nestlé’s U.S. headquarters in Arlington, VA today (link to be updated with photo and video), delivering Nestlé plastic…
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Plastic Straws Are Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Much of the stuff that accumulates during the holidays comes with single-use plastic packaging. We open a gift, rip it out of the package, and toss the plastic into a…
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This is Where Plastic Goes When You Throw It ‘Away’
I’ve spent the past two weeks in Hawaii with the Greenpeace Arctic Sunrise. As nice as it was to have a chance to come to Oahu for a series of…
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One Activist’s Mission to Protect our Planet and Break Free From Plastic
This week I had the pleasure of meeting an amazing human being. Brittany Theresa is the founder of #NoPlasticNOLA Movement as well as a mom who sees that our planet…
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This Aquarium Bootcamp Just Created One Thousand Plastic-Fighting Ocean Superheroes
Earlier this month, the first ever Ocean Heroes Bootcamp united youth leaders with high profile mentors like actor and activist Adrian Grenier, TV host Danni Washington, 5 Gyres co-founder and…
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Pennsylvania’s Plastics Resistance
This week, the Break Free From Plastic coalition and Earthworks have launched the “Stopping Plastic Where it Starts Tour,” a two-week grassroots tour that will travel to Texas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania,…
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Confessions of a Non-Recycler
I have a confession. There was a time when I really didn’t care about recycling. I don’t mean when I was young and didn’t understand where trash went — when…