We already know the Earth is drowning in plastic. It's clogging our landfills, our streams, our beaches, and our seas. In another 7 years, plastic will outnumber fish in our oceans.
Plastic comes from fossil fuel-based petrochemicals, so it's directly tied to pollution and climate change.
We know we need to reduce our plastic waste, now! That's why the UK, European Union, India, Australia, and the U.S. state of California are all imposing restrictions on single-use plastics.
Despite that, corporations are currently producing more plastic than ever before.Sign the petition to demand that countries around the world enforce stricter bans on plastic! They must not let corporations get away with this!A new report finds that humans are creating more and more single-use plastic products - and plastic waste - than at any point in history, increasing each year. At the same time, we
haven't been able to increase our recycling capabilities, meaning that most plastic products end up in the trash.
Around 20 corporations are responsible for creating most of the world's new single-use plastic products. At the top of the list is the
giant U.S. oil company Exxon Mobil, followed by the Chinese oil company Sinopec. In the course of making petrochemical-based plastics, these 20 corporations emitted a whopping 450 million metric tons of greenhouse gasses. That's the same as the entire country of Great Britain!
Oil companies have a huge investment in making the Earth swallow more and more plastic products. It keeps their dirty energy businesses in production, and it's a sneaky way to keep feeding us ever more fossil fuels.
Clearly, these corporations have no intention of stopping. So governments around the world need to do more than set hopeful limits and then sit idly by.
We need to create stricter bans across the globe, and demand serious legal enforcement to keep dirty energy companies from polluting our Earth even further! Sign the petition to save our Earth from ever-increasing plastic waste now!