5/5 die neue Ökodesign-Verordnung (ESPR) zu nutzen, um die Faserfreisetzung an der Quelle zu stoppen.
Es ist Zeit für progressive Entscheidungen! ⏰ Folge uns für Updates aus dem Gesetzgebungsprozess.
#Mikrofasern #BanMicroplastics #UnderOurSkin
4/5 📧 An: @jessikaroswall.ec.europa.eu
(Kommissarin für Umwelt):
Wir fordern, die Mikrofaserverschmutzung explizit in Initiativen zur Wasserresilienz und den Circular Economy Act aufzunehmen.
📧 An @stephane_sejourne (Exekutiv-Vizepräsident für Wohlstand und Industriestrategie):
Wir drängen darauf,
3/5 freisetzen, konzentrieren sich aktuelle EU-Maßnahmen primär auf “absichtlich” zugesetztes Mikroplastik. Mikrofasern aus Textilien bleiben bisher weitgehend unreguliert.
Das ändern wir jetzt. Wir haben uns offiziell an die zuständigen Kommissare gewandt:
2/5 Regeln gemacht werden. Ocean. Now! ist im direkten Dialog mit der EU-Ebene, um eine entscheidende regulatorische Lücke zu schließen.
Obwohl wissenschaftlich belegt ist, dass synthetische Textilien – darunter Polyester – während ihres gesamten Lebenszyklus kontinuierlich Mikrofasern
1/5 📑 Mission Brüssel: Unsere Forderungen auf dem Tisch der EU-Kommission @ec.europa.eu
Um die unsichtbare Flut an synthetischen, nicht-biologisch abbaubaren Mikrofasern zu stoppen, müssen wir dort ansetzen, wo die
💪 This year, we’re working towards regulation of emissions from synthetic fashion fibers and related chemicals.
We're applying our asks to the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR). It’s a developing EU law that requires products be more durable, repairable, and resource-efficient 🌱
✊ Healing requires action at every level.
We need decision-makers to prioritise policies that protect our #health and allow recovery from the toxic impacts of polyester #FastFashion.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll share how we're pushing for healing policy 💪
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Illustrations: Viktoria Spokojna
📣 We’re confronting ING bank at its Annual General Meeting in Amsterdam 🇳🇱
As shareholders meet inside, @milieudefensie & communities impacted by plastic production across Europe and the US are taking action – demonstrating outside, and asking the hard questions inside.
5/5 Later studies linked exposure to inflammation, fibrosis, and cancer risks – early warning signs!
4/5 Human #health = #ocean health...
ps: A 1975 study by Pimentel et al. (”Respiratory disease caused by synthetic fibres...”) reported lung disease in patients who inhaled these fibres, incl. materials like polyester.
3/5 possible levels:
🏭 Show brands you want change. Sign our petition to adidas: weact.campact.de/petitions/ad...
🗳️ Demand policymakers put health over profit and vote for those who will
👕 Consume less, but if needed, choose fashion that isn't harmful
Because everything is connected.
2/5 One source of these is the polyester clothing that fast-fashion manufacturers keep churning out...
From production to disposal, polyester clothes are linked to health risks for people, wildlife, and the environment.
This #WorldHealthDay, let’s resist!
Get loud and demand change on all
1/5 ⬇ Something’s getting under our skin… Every day, we breathe in, eat, drink, and wear synthetic #microfibers...
😡 Fast fashion brands are treating us like fossil fools.
This April 1st, also known as #FossilFoolsDay, we’re saying ‘NO’ to #FossilFashion. The time for ethical production is now! ⏱️
Join us: sign our petition to adidas: weact.campact.de/petitions/ad... 🖊️
Thank you.
🙏
#UnderOurSkin
🌊 Ocean. Now! is proud to stand with Ocean Vision Legal in the global movement to give the ocean a voice. We’ve signed the Ocean Rights Declaration.
👉 If you’d also like to join, head to: lnkd.in/dfVsrYYu
The tide is turning. It’s time for the #ocean to have its day in court. ✊
4/5 Wenn du Krillprodukte boykottierst, schützt du das Südpolarmeer.
👉 Schau jetzt unser Video ocean-now.org/projekte/ohn...
👉 Verstehe die Zusammenhänge
👉 Werde Teil der Bewegung
Denn ohne Krill bricht das Leben im Ozean zusammen.
3/5 Und das bedeutet:
Die Krillfischerei geht weiter.
Jede Kaufentscheidung zählt. Jede Lieferkette zählt.
2/5 Und wir? Wir verarbeiten ihn zu Öl, Tierfutter und Profit.
Wir haben große deutsche Händler konfrontiert.
Die Reaktionen:
❗ Ein paar handeln
❗ Viele halbherzig
❗ Andere gar nicht
1/5 Ein winziges Tier entscheidet über das Schicksal des globalen Ozeans.
Krill ernährt Wale, Pinguine, Robben – ganze Ökosysteme, und reguliert das Klima des Planeten!
📉 Global fertility rates have dropped over 50% in the past 50 years.
What’s driving this decline? Research from Dr. Shanna Swan shows it’s closely linked to the chemicals in plastic. 🚨 ⚠️
#BreakFreeFromPlastic #ThePlasticDetox #UnplasticYourLife
Effort is concentrated in the Antarctic Peninsula, near breeding and feeding grounds, in one of Earth's fastest-warming regions ❄️
<1% overall can still be too much in the wrong place. When the food web base is pressured, precaution should be stronger, not weaker.
📸: @seashepherdglobal.bsky.social
They're the foundation of the Southern Ocean food web. Whales 🐋 penguins 🐧 seals 🦭seabirds 🐟 fish. All depend on krill.
The certification leans heavily on the claim that the fishery removes less than 1% of total krill biomass. But that number ignores where fishing happens.
Ocean. Now! stands with ASOC who just filed an objection with the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC).
The MSC released its final draft report announcing the recertification of the Antarctic krill fishery as sustainable.
But Antarctic krill 🦐 are not just another species...
5/5 If the MSC label is meant to signal true sustainability, it must reflect reality in the Southern Ocean, not optics. 🌊
📸 Sea Shepherd
4/5 acknowledged that current management is not precautionary due to localized concentration of the catch.
Yet sustainability scores went up.
ASOC and WWF have formally objected, arguing that certification is being granted based on outdated assumptions, not present-day risk.
3/5 precautionary cap for the first time in history, closed three months early, and allowed a key spatial safeguard to lapse.
The Scientific Committee of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources has already
2/5 On February 9, 2026, the Marine Stewardship Council released its final draft report announcing the recertification of the Antarctic krill fishery as sustainable. 🦐
This comes after the fishery exceeded its 620,000 tonne
1/5 Ocean. Now! stands with ASOC:
You cannot call a fishery “precautionary” after its safeguards have expired, its catch cap has been exceeded, and its management authority admits it is not precautionary.
4/4 „Für den Umweltschutz“ zum Thema „Antarktis – Gemeinsam Einzigartiges schützen“ durch das Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukleare Sicherheit und das Umweltbundesamt gefördert. Die Verantwortung für den Inhalt dieser Veröffentlichung liegt bei den Autorinnen.
