Q&A: Susan Freinkel, author of “Plastic: A Toxic Love Story,” on recycling myths and the problem with single-use plastics

Look closely at the cover of Plastic: A Toxic Love Story, and you’ll notice that the letters are fashioned out of plastic objects you probably encounter on a regular basis. ‘P’ is a plastic patio chair. ‘S’ is a scrunched-up shopping bag. ‘I’ is the ever-ubiquitous water bottle.

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Jeff Goldblum Implores California Lawmakers to Pass Statewide Plastics Legislation

Yesterday, actor, musician and Oceana supporter Jeff Goldblum met with lawmakers in the California capitol to deliver an important message: We need urgent legislative action to fight the plastic pollution crisis, and it’s critical that elected officials pass SB 54 and AB 1080, the California Circular Economy and Pollution Reduction Act, which would greatly reduce single-use plastic packaging […]

Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean.
Facebook: Worldwide, 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced yearly

Worldwide, 78 million tons of plastic packaging produced yearly are left to flow into our oceans.