Plastic pollutes our Earth and is harmful to our health!
Plastic is made from fossil fuels with many toxic chemicals added.
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If plastic were a country it would be the 5th largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Plastic pollutes our planet at every stage of its life, it also causes disease and death.
Plastic is made from fossil fuels and also toxic chemicals. Many thousands of unregulated chemicals are added to make plastic soft, hard; fire resistant or whatever chemicals are needed to create the plastic product. These harmful chemicals leach into the food and drinks of the products they package.
Just knowing this about plastic do you really want to package your food or drinks in it? Not only is plastic leaching into our food, but it is also shedding particles everywhere. These particles, called microfibers, can be found every place on Earth and these microfibers carry with them the toxic plastic chemicals contained in plastic. Many of us consume a credit card of plastic particles a week.
More bad news about plastic! Plastic is difficult to recycle. All the chemicals and different types of plastic make it hard to recycle and hard to turn into new markets. Recycling plastic makes it more toxic. Only about 5 to 9 percent of all the plastic produced has ever been recycled.
Every person on our planet needs to reduce their dependence on plastic, most of all our children. We don’t know what the long-term effects will be, but many of the chemical additives in plastic are known to cause cancer and other serious diseases. PFAS, phthalates and bisphenols and many others, added to plastic, should be taken seriously, and the producers and manufacturers of plastic need to be held responsible for the harm they contribute to our health and our planet.
Please sign this petition calling for the US to join the Global Plastics Treaty encouraging the White House to commit to end the production and sale of single-use plastics, combat plastic pollution, and require producers and retailers of plastics to be liable for the cost of any environmental or health-related damages.
Most important, start this moment to reduce your plastic exposure/ footprint.
- Always carry a reusable glass or metal water bottle, and reusable shopping bags with you.
- Learn to refuse single-use plastics, such as plastic water bottles and coffee cups, straws, plastic bags and plastic utensils.
- Purchase fruit and produce in the bulk section, and don’t place items in plastic bags.
- Always search out products in glass jars instead of plastic containers.
- When you must buy plastic products, choose ones that you can recycle rather than ones you must put in the trash.
- Bring your own containers and shop the bulk section of your local food coop.
- Purchase clothing made from cotton and wool instead of polyester or poly fibers. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1188343293/is-toxic-fashion-making-us-sick-a-look-at-the-chemicals-lurking-in-our-clothes
- Store food in glass containers instead of plastic.
- Ditch the baggies!
Reading list
https://scienceinfo.net/how-much-plastic-do-we-eat-every-day-every-month-and-all-our-life.html
Press Release | Press Releases | News | U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley of Oregon (senate.gov) Plastic Action Month
How plastics are poisoning us – The Daily Climate
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us — Beyond Plastics – Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution
The missing science: Could our addiction to plastic be poisoning us? (unep.org)
“It’s As If They’re Poisoning Us”: The Health Impacts of Plastic Recycling in Turkey | HRW
http://defendourhealth.org/blog/the-chemical-footprint-of-a-plastic-bottle-webinar/
Please sign the petition calling for the US to join the Global Plastics Treaty, you can help encourage the United States to end the production and sale of single-use plastics by 2030, introduce measures to combat plastic pollution by regulating the entire life cycle of plastic, and requiring producers and retailers of plastics to be liable for the cost of any environmental or health-related damages.
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