Tell asset manager Vanguard to stop financing the plastics apocalypse!

URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Plastics are overtaking our oceans and killing innocent sea turtles

The plastics crisis is worsening. And now that Donald Trump is in the White House, we’re concerned he’ll continue to put greedy polluter profits over the health and wellbeing of people and the planet – including permitting new plastics plants that POISON communities and DESECRATE the environment.

These new petrochemical plants churn out the plastics that end up in the ocean, into our food and soil, and into our bodies. But plastics plants don’t just pop up on their own.

Big banks and asset managers like Vanguard finance the greedy plastic companies creating this massive problem. But that also means we can stop the problem at its source: the financing of new plastics.

That’s why we need your immediate help. Vanguard manages millions of retirement accounts for people across the world. Its influence is enormous. If we push Vanguard to stop financing new petrochemical plants, it helps save communities, oceans, and innocent animals!

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Dear Vanguard,

I am writing to urge you to end financing for the petrochemical projects and companies that are driving the global plastics crisis.

Endangered wildlife is choking and dying on plastic waste. Frontline communities face increased cancer rates when petrochemical plants are built near their homes. Doctors are finding microplastics in our blood, lungs, hearts, and brains with damaging impacts to human health.

The plastics crisis is worsening every day. You have the power to help stem this catastrophic problem.

I urge you to:

- Stop Financing Petrochemicals: Immediately prohibit all financing for petrochemicals expansion and adopt absolute greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets (including scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions) leading to the phase out of financing to the petrochemicals sector.

- Require Clients to Adopt Transition Plans: Require that all petrochemical clients develop and publicly disclose transition plans consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and reversing biodiversity loss, including a timeline for absolute greenhouse gas emissions reductions without reliance on offsets, carbon capture, or carbon removal.

- Stop Financing Environmental Racism and Injustice: Adopt environmental justice policies to end financing for petrochemical projects in communities of color and low-income communities that are already overburdened with pollution, including regional exclusions for the Gulf South and Ohio River Valley.

- Respect Human Rights and Indigenous Sovereignty: End financing for any petrochemical company that repeatedly violates environmental regulations, human rights, or Indigenous Peoples’ sovereignty, and their right to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent, and provide remedy for past harms.

- Responsibly Exit the Petrochemical Supply Chain: Stop financing fracking, rapidly phase out all fossil fuel financing, and adopt policies, guided by international human rights law and best practices, to address the specific harms of plastics, fertilizers, and pesticides.

Thank you for considering my opinion.

Sincerely,

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