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UN Plastics Treaty: What to Watch for at INC-5.2
Negotiations for a UN Plastics Treaty resume in Switzerland August of 2025. The draft text outlines key divergences in country positions. Decisions on these key articles will determine if the treaty can effectively address plastic pollution.
United States of Plastics Report
Ocean Conservancy has released a first-of-its-kind report that grades states based on analysis of local laws designed to reduce plastic pollution. California received the highest score and Mississippi the worst.
Model Legislative Toolkits
There isn’t just one way to enact sensible and effective zero waste policies in the U.S.: every state, city, and community has its own needs. Just Zero has designed model legislative toolkits that are interactive and customizable to help you build a bill or bills across a range of interest areas.
Real vs. False Solutions to Plastic Pollution
False solutions do not adequately or effectively address plastic pollution and its serious impacts. Corporations that profit by dealing in petrochemicals and plastics seek to offer up false solutions to the plastic pollution crisis so that they can distract and confuse the media and the public, which prevents actual progress in reducing plastic production.
Report: Chemical Recycling: A Dangerous Deception
Chemical recycling — or what the industry likes to call “advanced recycling” — is increasingly touted as a solution to the plastic waste problem, but a landmark new report from Beyond Plastics and IPEN shows this technology hasn’t worked for decades, it’s still failing, and it threatens the environment, the climate, human health, and environmental…
Stemming the Plastic-Climate Crisis
This report presents new global modeling of policy action needed to reduce emissions from the plastics and petrochemical industries to mitigate the climate crisis. It lays out how the United Nations Plastics Treaty presents the opportunity to build and implement a full approach to ending plastic pollution and its full range of impacts on human…
Zero Waste Policy Roadmap for a Plastic-Free Future
This roadmap compiled by the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators is intended to strengthen the analysis of plastic policy solutions to help decision-makers address the problem to build a just, toxic-free, circular economy. To do this, the roadmap connects policy solutions to environmental justice and climate goals. Each of the five sections within the roadmap…
California Passed a Landmark Law About Plastic Pollution. Why Are Some Environmentalists Still Concerned?
In 2022, Governor Gavin Newsome signed SB 54, the Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act. As this California law shifts the responsibility of plastic pollution from consumers to companies that make and use plastic packaging, some think that the legislation still gives industry too much leeway.
