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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.
The Environmental Injustices of PLA Bioplastic Production
Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) has prepared a supplemental report that addresses the environmental injustices of Polylactic Acid (PLA) production. The supplement further describes the serious social consequences of producing PLA, and emphasizes how replacing one toxic single-use material—conventional plastic—with another—PLA—only perpetuates pollution and environmental injustices.
Bioplastics Are Trash: The Unforeseen Environmental Consequences of PLA from Production to Disposal
This comprehensive report on Polylactic Acid (PLA), a popular bioplastic often touted as a sustainable alternative to conventional plastics, prepared by Eunomia Research & Consulting, in collaboration with Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC), provides an in-depth analysis of PLA’s environmental and social impacts, challenging prevailing perceptions of its sustainability.
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.
