Break Free From Plastic

🧐 Yes, periods are a plastic pollution issue. Every menstruator deserves the right to choose period products that are safe—not only for their body but also for the planet. Conventional menstrual pads can be made up of up to 90% plastic, and many period products are filled with toxic chemicals that harm both our health and the environment. 🩸🚫 It's time to demand healthier, sustainable periods—for ourselves and for our environment. Last week, across the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement, members joined forces to support #EnvironmenstrualWeek, advocating for safe, eco-friendly period products for everyone. Find out more with Wen (Women's Environmental Network) and be part of the change. 🌟 #BreakUpWithToxicPeriods #PeriodPower #BreakFreeFromPlastic #WeChooseReuse #Environmenstrual

Curious about impacts of plastics in our lives? Join us in this webinar series exploring the health impacts of plastics to human health and the environment. 📌 October 30: Impacts on the human body, food chain, and healthcare 📌 November 6: Impacts on frontline communities, disposal, and waste management methods ⏰ 1:30 pm Delhi | 3 pm Bangkok | 4 pm Manila Register today: https://lnkd.in/gPqNY5Pd #BreakFreeFromPlastic #INC5 #PlasticsTreaty

Breaky explains the Global #PlasticsTreaty, and how it can end the age of plastic! 🌍📜 No more plastic pollution. We need a strong plastics treaty for people and the planet. #BreakFreeFromPlastic #plasticpollution

For several weeks, communities across the U.S. South — many of whom were already on the front lines of the plastics and petrochemical industry — have faced a wave of industrial disasters, flooding, hurricanes, etc. often at the same time. This is all happening at the nexus of the climate crisis, the plastics crisis, and the labor crisis, where the lives of industrial workers are deemed disposable for the sake of corporate profits. By looking at some of these recent disasters, we can see how #BreakFreeFromPlastic members and allies are providing hands-on support for community members in the absence of vital government services. We can ask why the industry consistently fails to provide basic information about which chemicals are burning in their exploded pipelines and factory fires. And, of course, we can demand accountability. 👉 Click through the slides to read about some of these recent disasters.

The harmful effects of plastics on human health are still unclear to many governments and people around the world. Therefore, a group of GAIA and #BreakFreeFromPlastic organizations from Latin America and the Caribbean extend an invitation to participate in a webinar on the health impacts of plastic. Interpretation will be available in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Register here 👇 https://lnkd.in/gK-4FxPB #PlasticsAndHealth #PlasticsTreaty

Remember Gandhi's historic Dandi Salt March to protest excessive salt taxes? 94 years on, our salt (and sugar!) faces a new threat: microplastics. As per a Toxics Link report that studied 10 salt brands and 5 sugar brands from India, they found microplastics in ALL of the samples! Surely, that's more than enough reason to protest? The study calls for urgent, comprehensive research into the long-term health impacts of microplastics on human health. Know more: https://lnkd.in/dbgb_uds #BreakFreeFromPlastic

📣 NEW JOB ALERT Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) is looking for 2 new people to join their team! Petrochemical production (most importantly, plastics and agrochemicals and their chemical precursors) poses an array of direct harms while providing a lifeline to fossil fuel producers and further entrenching fossil fuels in the economy. Addressing petrochemicals is therefore a key component of any global strategy to stop plastic pollution and to keep fossil fuels in the ground. We are looking for: ✅ A Global Plastics & Petrochemicals (Senior) Campaigner: https://lnkd.in/eTSk-sbf ✅ An EU Petrochemicals (Senior) Campaigner: https://lnkd.in/eBNPt6M4 LOCATION: Remote DEADLINE: November 5, 2024 #PeopleWhoPowerCIEL #Hiring #FossilEconomy

We are almost at the finish line of the #PlasticsTreaty negotiations and we want champions of change to win! Countries should not back down on their commitment to a strong and ambitious Plastics Treaty. Learn more about the Plastics Treaty 👇 https://lnkd.in/g727pkaN #BreakFreeFromPlastic #INC5

🚨 NEW STUDY found microplastics in the endometrial tissue of women with multiple miscarriages. Researchers detected microplastic in all 22 uterus samples tested, consisting of 6 different plastic polymers in colors like blue, green, and black. ⚠️⚠️ In mice, these particles were linked to reduced fertility. Previous studies have already found microplastics in lungs, blood, and even breast milk. 🫁🩸🍼 WE NEED A FUTURE FREE AND SAFE FROM PLASTIC POLLUTION. 📣🗣️ Tell @unep and the governments of the world to #BreakFreeFromPlastic by signing the Global Plastics Treaty petition 👉 https://lnkd.in/gYCSsr2C 🌿 Learn more about the study: https://lnkd.in/gMwv4XZ4 #BeatPlasticPollution #ToxicPlastics

#BreakFreeFromPlastic Global Coordinator Von Hernandez echoed the call of environmental groups for the passage of a comprehensive Single-Use Plastic Ban as an essential policy tool to stop plastic pollution by shifting corporate dependence on throwaway packaging models to more sustainable reuse and refill systems. Single-use plastic is not a clean-up problem but a pollution problem, Hernandez stressed, adding that the only way to prevent it is to stop its production and avoid using it in the first place. https://lnkd.in/gev2TJTh