Plastics and Big Oil: The Roots of our Plastic Crisis
Solving the plastic pollution crisis requires a fundamental change in thinking about the production of plastic in the first place: where it comes from, and why it is being produced in such monumental volume.
The story of plastics is the story of how Big Oil got into everything.
Shifting the Plastic Narrative in Asia Pacific
“It is quite frequently that we come across articles and papers that declare the Asia Pacific region as the biggest contributor to ocean plastic. Labelling these countries as polluters is both facetious and inaccurate.”
Satyarupa Shekhar, Asia Pacific Coordinator for #BreakFreeFromPlastic, is shifting the narrative of the plastic waste crisis in the Asia Pacific Region…
What is Net Zero?
The idea of net zero at its core is about balance: a net zero world in theory is a world we’d want to live in. But reducing emissions is also a matter of climate justice.
Can goals of Net Zero by 2050 help us address the need to confront our growth-based economy? Or is this just another form of greenwashing?