The Cost of Amazon’s Plastic Denial on the World’s Oceans
For the third year, Oceana analyzed e-commerce packaging data and found that Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2021. This is a 18% increase of Oceana’s 2020 estimate of 599 million pounds and is enough plastic to circle the Earth more than 800 times in the form of air pillows. Oceana found, based on data from a peer-reviewed study on plastic waste pollution published in Science in 2020, that up to 26 million pounds of this plastic waste will end up in the world’s waterways and seas.
Path of Toxic Pollution
How making “forever chemicals” for food packaging threatens people and the climate.
Missing the Mark: Unveiling corporate false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis
For the first time, Break Free From Plastic has recorded the plastic solutions projects of our seven top plastic polluters, and classified the projects according to whether they are real solutions or false ones.
Reuse wins: top findings show reuse beats single-use every time
Reuse Wins shows how a new reuse economy is emerging to replace the use of single-use products in food service.
Waste and Opportunity 2020: Searching for Corporate Leadership
This study measures the progress of 50 large companies in the beverage, quick-service restaurant, consumer packaged goods, and retail sectors on six core pillars where swift action is needed to reduce plastic pollution,
Shopping for Plastic: The 2021 Supermarket Plastics Ranking
How does your favorite supermarket rank when it comes to reducing the plastic pollution flooding our oceans, waterways, and communities?
Amazon’s Plastic Problem Revealed
How Amazon is flooding our communities, environment, and oceans with hundreds of millions of pounds of plastic packaging and how they can stop.
Choked, Strangled, Drowned: The Plastics Crisis Unfolding In Our Oceans
After surveying dozens of government agencies, organizations and institutions that collect data on the impact of plastic on marine animals, Oceana found evidence of nearly 1,800 animals from 40 different species swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic since 2009. Of those, a staggering 88% were species listed as endangered or threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act.
All Talk and No Recycling: An Investigation of the U.S. 'Chemical Recycling' Industry
This report provides an assessment of failed, proposed, and existing projects in the United States and demonstrates that the industry is once again proposing to build a new network of waste and burn facilities. Under the guise of “chemical” or “advanced” recycling, the industry is lobbying for and advancing development of plastic-to-fuel (PTF) facilities that will only make the plastic crisis worse while diverting public and private investment dollars away from real solutions.
Plastic Atlas Second Edition: Facts & Figures About the World Of Synthetic Polymers
The Plastic Atlas has the hard facts, data and figures to prove that the story of plastic that industry is telling us is a myth. We need urgent and drastic reductions in plastic production, consumption and regulation at the local, national and global levels that tackle plastic pollution at the source.
Packaging Away the Planet: U.S. Grocery Retailers and the Plastic Pollution Crisis
This assessment should serve as a baseline measurement of U.S. retailers’ sustainability performance on single-use plastics. All retailers profiled in this report received failing scores, indicating how much work is needed to urgently address the plastic pollution crisis.
Plastic & Climate: The Hidden Cost of a Plastic Planet
The plastic pollution crisis that overwhelms our oceans is also a significant and growing threat to the Earth’s climate. At current levels, greenhouse gas emissions from the plastic lifecycle threaten the ability of the global community to keep global temperature rise below 1.5°C. With the petrochemical and plastic industries planning a massive expansion in production, the problem is on track to get much worse.
Plastic and Health: The Hidden Cost of a Plastic Planet
This report provides a detailed overview of the health impacts associated with plastic at every stage of its supply chain and lifecycle, and it reveals the numerous exposure routes through which human health is impacted at each stage.
What’s in the Package? Unveiling the Toxic Secrets of Food and Beverage Packaging
Unveiling the toxic secrets of food and beverage packaging.