Our Petitions
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Take action by signing these petitions to stop plastic pollution & its toxic impacts.
U.S. food and beverages are wrapped in tons of plastic packaging. This plastic sheds microplastics and leaches chemicals into what we eat and drink, posing profound health risks. Call on your legislator to limit toxic plastic packaging!
We are calling on some of the world’s largest companies in their sectors—Adidas, Amazon, Apple, H&M, Shein, & Unilever—to immediately reduce their use and production of plastic packaging and cheap disposable products that are trashing our planet.
Call on world leaders to negotiate an ambitious, binding Global Plastics Treaty that centers human rights, advances real solutions, and limits plastic production.
Join us in calling on the EPA to ensure access to safe drinking water and stop the harms of single-use plastic water bottles. It’s time for the EPA to take action and advance Filtered, Not Bottled water.
Coca-Cola is the largest consumer-facing global seller of plastics, producing almost one quarter of PET plastic bottles globally—despite it once leading on refillables. Call on Coca-Cola and its bottlers to bring back refillable bottles and support state-mandated refill quotas.
Tell the USDA to update its Food and Nutrition Services Programs to recommend the use of safe, sustainable non-plastic materials in school cafeterias, such as glass or stainless steel, as recommended by the scientific and medical community.
Tell Starbucks Chairman & CEO Brian Niccol to promote and increase incentives and discounts for reusable cups. Starbucks uses more than 8,000 plastic cups and plastic-lined paper cups per minute, and up to 6 billion disposable cups and mugs worldwide each year. Most of this ends up in landfills, the environment, or is incinerated.
Tell your representatives it’s time to support the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2023 for the health and future of humans, animals, waterways, oceans, and the environment. This Act outlines plastic reduction strategies to create a sustainable, equitable future.
Tell JPMorgan Chase to live up to its “commitments” to human rights, responsible investing, and racial equity by divesting its current shares in Formosa Plastics—a plastics producer with one of the worst environmental and human rights track records in the world.
Urge international shipping giant, Maersk to stop shipping plastic waste from richer countries to less affluent countries. These plastic waste exports threaten the environment and health of residents in communities.
Support the community of Ithaca, N.Y., in halting Cornell University’s planned installation of new artificial plastic “turf” fields, which shed microplastics and chemical pollution into air, soil, and groundwater, and significantly contribute to plastic pollution at the end of their use as athletic fields.
Tell fashion CEOs to reformulate their products to remove BPA from their clothing. The Center for Environmental Health found BPA in eight brands of sports bras and six brands of athletic shirts.
Please ask Trader Joe’s to significantly reduce its use of single-use plastic packaging. Currently it’s nearly impossible to shop there without bringing home a massive amount of single-use plastic packaging.
Urge the EPA to take the critical first step in banning toxic vinyl chloride—used to make PVC plastic or vinyl—before any more harm is done to the communities where it is manufactured.
As the largest home improvement chain, The Home Depot should ban polyvinyl chloride (PVC) from its store shelves and sell safer building products.
The global plastics industry receives ~$45 billion of subsidies each year, increasing plastic production and consumption by making plastics artificially cheap. Tell the INC Chair, Luis Vayas Valdivieso, and UNEP Executive Director Inger Andersen to address subsidies in the Treaty text.
Call for urgent action in DC to deliver free water filters to residents impacted by lead-contaminated water, reducing toxic plastic bottled water exposure and pollution.
The standard plastic materials used to construct apartments, homes, and other structures can fuel more dangerous and toxic wildfires. Tell the California Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to support the use of healthier, plastic-free building materials, and create more resilient, safer, neighborhoods.
Call on H&M, Carter’s, and The Children’s Place to commit to reducing the use of polyester and other synthetic fibers in their products, which may be harmful to children’s health. All three brands have taken steps to reduce chemicals of concern in their products—but not yet plastic fabrics.
The UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations are now underway. Urge the U.S. government to lead by forging ambitious solutions—like reduction of plastic production and freedom from corporate influence—instead of leading the world in generating plastic pollution.