The Story of Plastic

Plastic is being found inside the bread we eat. 

Plastic has a whole lifecycle that's hidden from view.

Plastic is made from fossil fuels, like oil or fracked natural gas.

 In fact, oil and gas companies are tripling plastic production, planning to build or expand more than 300 petrochemical plants in the United States alone by 2025.

These companies already produce as many plastic as we can use.

Such companies like Unilever, Nestle, and Procter & Gamble go to places like Indonesia and push their products onto communities that just are prepared to deal with all that plastic.

These corporations are aggressively marketing single-use plastic products around the world.

Incineration is a nasty business producing toxic smoke and fly ash.

Just 2 % of plastic packaging gets recycled and only 14% is effectively recycled, meaning it becomes something as useful as before.

 Most recycled plastic is only recycled twice before ending up in landfills, incinerators, or the environment anyway.

We can't burn, bury, or recycle our way out of this problem and we can't just scoop all that plastic out of the environment either.

To achieve a waste-free future, we need to create a sustainable circular economy.