Nestlé/Arrowhead and other companies charge up to 2,000 times the cost of tap water and then leave the rest of us to clean up the plastic pollution.
Ileene Anderson of the Center for Biological Diversity
How do you justify the plastic mess made around the country for each of Hot Chocolate’s 15k and 5k races? Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is the official charity partner of these RAM Racing events taking place all across the country. Sadly,...

How do you justify the plastic mess made around the country for each of Hot Chocolate’s 15k and 5k races? Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is the official charity partner of these RAM Racing events taking place all across the country.  Sadly, the unintended consequence of these 'do-gooders' is a plastic mess left in its wake.  

In this TEDx talk, Beth Terry explains her decision to live a plastic-free life – and how she made it happen.

“Forever is today for our children. Delete plastic from your world. Our oceans are death zones, our beaches plastic. Refuse2Use” - Peter Fonda #Resolve2Refuse disposable plastic: http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/get-involved

“Forever is today for our children.
Delete plastic from your world.
Our oceans are death zones, our beaches plastic.
Refuse2Use” - Peter Fonda

#Resolve2Refuse disposable plastic: http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/get-involved

“Happy holidays! It’s a new world again and there is no better way to celebrate forward thinking than to stop playing with single-use plastics. Party into this next year with optimism and make a holiday contribution to PPC!! Wheeeee!” – Mario...

“Happy holidays! It’s a new world again and there is no better way to celebrate forward thinking than to stop playing with single-use plastics. Party into this next year with optimism and make a holiday contribution to PPC!! Wheeeee!” – Mario Batali

#Resolve2Refuse single-use plastics. 

mad-as-a-marine-biologist:

Our Plastic, Our Problem (A marine litter info-operetta!)

by Seas at Risk

“May I please have a lemonade? No straw please.” – Cole, age 9. Take the pledge to Refuse Plastic Straws.

“May I please have a lemonade? No straw please.” – Cole, age 9.

Take the pledge to Refuse Plastic Straws.

Take a stand against single use plastic with the new Plastic-Free Campus manual from the Post-Landfill Action Network and Plastic Pollution Coalition.

Take a stand against single use plastic with the new Plastic-Free Campus manual from the Post-Landfill Action Network and Plastic Pollution Coalition.

unconsumption:

The Great Pacific garbage patch is one of the world’s least talked about environmental disasters. At Kamilo beach in Hawaii, Sophie Thomas from the Royal Society of Arts has documented pieces from the patch washed up on land, including discarded bottles, toothbrushes and toys.

(via Plastic waste in Pacific Ocean washed up on Hawaii beach - in pictures | Guardian Sustainable Business | The Guardian)

— rw

REFUSE disposable plastic.

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