Sign the Petition: Demand immediate federal solutions to the plastic crisis NOW!

Plastic has already made its way into every aspect of life on Earth -- our food, our water, and our air.

Our oceans are being decimated by plastic waste, and the plastic that doesn’t end up in the sea gets poured into landfills where it seeps toxins into the soil, or gets incinerated, releasing toxic air pollution. Animals are choking and dying from plastic, while humans unknowingly consume a credit card’s worth of plastic every week.

Powerful plastic corporations and their friends in the fossil fuel industry are raking in massive profits while people, animals, and the planet suffer the devastating consequences of rampant plastic pollution.

We must hold Big Plastic and Big Oil accountable for their environmental destruction before the PLASTIC APOCALYPSE destroys life on Earth as we know it.

We urgently need environmentalists like YOU to speak up and help show strong public support for bold action to END plastic pollution.

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Dear President Biden,

The world faces an indisputable plastic pollution crisis. 99% of plastic is made from fossil fuels, and fracked gas is fueling an unprecedented boom in plastic production. Plastic is an environmental nightmare at every step of its life cycle.

Plastic production fuels the climate crisis by increasing greenhouse gas emissions and harming local communities with toxic air and water pollution.

Plastic pollutes and kills wildlife. It fills our rivers and oceans, chokes out wildlife, threatens public health, permeates our drinking water, and persists in the environment for centuries.

The solution to plastic pollution is clear: Reduce the amount of unnecessary plastic produced. We can transform our extractive, throwaway economy into a regenerative, inclusive one that’s good for our country and creates U.S. jobs.

President Biden: we urge you to take the eight crucial actions outlined in the Presidential Plastics Action Plan, supported by more than 550 organizations. These actions will immediately set the nation on a pathway to a plastic-pollution-free future while longer-term measures, which require action at all levels of government and society, are developed.

Plastic pollution kills. We urge you to be a champion for communities, wildlife, and our future generations.

President Biden: be a #PlasticFreePresident.

Sincerely,

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