Fight fracking by pledging to reduce your plastic use
With licences to exploit one million acres across England and Scotland, INEOS has become the UK's biggest fracking player1. In addition to its plans to import fracked gas from US fracking sacrifice zones2, the company is planning to use ethane from UK-produced gas to manufacture plastics3. The last thing the world needs, however, is yet more plastic.
Aside from the fact that plastic contains chemicals known as endocrine disruptors proven to cause infertility and various cancers4, endangered birds like the albatross (pictured above) are dying prematurely due to the ingestion of throwaway plastic5 which ends up in our seas and oceans – the very places where life should thrive.
In short, plastics are bad for our health, for the health of our feathered friends and for our planet. We can - and we must - stand up to corporate criminals like INEOS who are hell bent on foisting their filthy fracking and poisonous plastic agenda upon all life forms.
1 https://drillordrop.com/2015/12/17/breaking-ineos-oil-and-gas-licences-now-cover-1-million-acres/
2 https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/3765/anti-fracking-campaigners-raise-concerns-over-opening-shale-gas-facility-grangemouth
3 https://youtu.be/sGYhL6q7S_E
4 http://ecologycenter.org/factsheets/adverse-health-effects-of-plastics/#plastichealthgrid
5 http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sowb/casestudy/159
Through our collective actions, let's tell INEOS Chairman and CEO, Jim Ratcliffe, to frack off!
With the aim in mind of reducing our plastic footprint and thereby hurting INEOS' fracking plans, I am asking you to hereby pledge to do one or more of the following:
1) educate myself about the health and environmental harms caused by plastic;
2) educate at every possible opportunity my local shops and wider community about the harmful and unneccessary waste caused by plastic;
3) refuse or avoid buying single-use plastic, such as plastic carrier bags, plastic cups, plastic cutlery, plastic bottles and plastic packaging;
4) recycle plastic goods, purposefully or artistically;
5) support my local frack free and zero waste groups.
