How to reduce plastic pollution by billions of bottles, in just one word: Refillables

January 28, 2020

Though it takes less than 10 minutes to guzzle and discard an orange soda, the resulting empty plastic bottle lasts practically forever in the ocean, far outliving most marine animals.

Activists spurn DENR’s waste-to-energy program

Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2020

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

January 27, 2020

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.

Jeff Goldblum Implores California Lawmakers to Pass Statewide Plastics Legislation

January 23, 2020

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 […]

Celebrities back California bill to cut single-use plastics

AP, January 22, 2020