Plastic Pollution Coalition

A small group of artists, activists, scientists, and leaders came together in 2009 to point to a growing problem in the world: plastic pollution. Plastic Pollution Coalition started by aiming to upgrade people's perceptions about plastic waste—away from the idea that plastics eventually become pesky litter or marine debris and toward the reality that our world is in the midst of a plastic pollution crisis. The group pledged to raise awareness about the growing crisis and promote solutions.

Plastic Pollution Coalition accomplishes their work through three pillars of action. They educate, connect, and advocate to bring their vision to fruition. They want to see a world in which food, drinking water, and the bodies of all creatures are free of plastic and its chemical compounds. They want to ensure that no community is disproportionately harmed by the petrochemical and plastics industries. They desire that everyone embodies zero-waste values and seeks to reestablish a harmonious relationship with nature.

Plastic Pollution Coalition is a non-profit communications and advocacy organization that collaborates with an expansive global alliance of organizations, businesses, and individuals to create a more just, equitable, regenerative world free of plastic pollution and its toxic impacts.

The world envisioned by Plastic Pollution Coalition includes profitable businesses that design goods to be package free or use packaging that is non-toxic and reusable or truly biodegradable and bio-benign, corporations that use refillable and reusable delivery systems, and governments that support a circular economy. In their vision, fossil fuel industry dependence is diminished, and the global climate is protected. This is a regenerative, life-giving, life-loving wonderful world that everyone can feel good about existing in.

PROJECTS & CHALLENGES

Altering perceptions is no simple task. Sometimes it's really necessary to flip the script, and that's just what Plastic Pollution Coalition is doing through their Flip the Script on Plastics project.

Flip the Script on Plastics is an initiative to help the entertainment industry model real solutions to the plastic pollution crisis, both on set and in storylines. The organization knows that life imitates art, and by showing package-free, reusable, and refillable systems in popular television shows and movies, they can influence culture and change the perception of toxic throwaway plastic as being normal—because they believe it shouldn't be.

By partnering with actors, writers, directors, producers, content creators, and others in the entertainment industry, they are building a team of participants to model the systemic change needed to solve the plastic pollution crisis.