How To Reduce Your Exposure to Microplastics
Microplastics are tiny pieces of plastic that are found everywhere — in our oceans, lakes, streams, drinking water, soil, plants, fish, sea birds, most foods we eat, in the air, and in all of our bodies. Data is emerging that links these particles with a host of health harms. Learn how to reduce your exposure.
Single-Use Plastic Straws
Plastic straws may be small but they’re a BIG problem — Americans use millions of plastic straws each day. These straws are not recyclable so they end up in landfills and incinerators as well as littered in our environment where they may persist for hundreds of years. But you can help!
Microplastic Pollution In Tea
Plastic tea bags and hot water are a BAD combination for your health. Learn more about how you can avoid this source of microplastics pollution in your daily cup of tea and urge tea companies to replace plastic tea bags with paper or good old bulk loose, leaf tea.
Single-Use Plastic Bags
Plastic bags are used for an average of 12 minutes but can last for more than 500 years, polluting our environment and endangering wildlife. Find out how you can help pass laws to ban them and encourage the use of reusable bags.
False Solutions to Plastic Pollution
As the global plastic pollution crisis continues to grow, so does plastics industry hype promoting false solutions — techno “fixes” including waste-to-energy incineration and chemical processing of plastic waste. We need to expose and reject these false solutions.