This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water

#EndPlasticPollution #innovation

Promising! This High School Student Invented a Filter That Eliminates 96 Percent of Microplastics From Drinking Water

www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/t...

We average a credit card size amount of plastic intake a WEEK. The Plastic Detox is a documentary premiering on March 16th. Will it be a helpful look at getting rid of plastic, inside and out? Or a MAHA sales pitch for untested products?
#EndPlasticPollution #plasticfree

#EndPlasticPollution
Currents move🧋🧃

Debris floated 5,300 mi on🛢️⚫️oil-coated plastic
Per Eos

From
2019 Brazil oil spill
To
2020 Palm Beach, FL beach mess

“Christopher Reddy/chemical oceanographer [at]
Woods Hole…

origins of largest/2019 oil spill in Brazil”

⚫️🛢️🧴📸 on
Friends of Palm Beach Insta

Plant-Based 3D-Printed Surfboards 'Sensational' to Ride While Halting Microplastic Pollution The company regularly does demonstration days, the dates for which can be gleaned by following the firm's Instagram page.

#surfing #EndPlasticPollution

Great news! Plant-Based 3D-Printed Surfboards ‘Sensational’ to Ride While Halting Microplastic Pollution

www.goodnewsnetwork.org/plant-based-...

#EndPlasticPollution

Rice, two curries and dal: The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish Garbage cafes are springing up across India. The BBC visits the city of Ambikapur to find out how much impact they can really have on plastic – and people.

#endplasticpollution #innovation #pollutionsolutions 🫶🏽

Fantastic idea! The Indian cafes where you can pay in rubbish

"People can trade a kilogram (2.2lb) of plastic waste for a full meal"

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Another Possible Risk of Microplastics? Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Microplastics are seemingly everywhere—and now growing research suggests they could be breeding grounds for drug-resistant bacteria

#EndPlasticPollution

🚨 If the news about microplastics being found in human brains during autopsies didn’t get you to cut plastics out of your life maybe this will:

Microplastics Could Be Turning Bacteria into Drug-Resistant Superbugs

www.scientificamerican.com/article/micr...

California can lead the way & help #EndPlasticPollution. @governor.ca.gov: It's time to uphold the promise you made when you signed #SB54 -- the most ambitious and comprehensive plastics law in the world: "Our kids deserve a future free of plastic waste and all its dangerous impacts." #leadership

🌍🚫 #PlasticsTreaty talks collapsed at INC 5.2 in Geneva. Despite majority support, a small group blocked progress. In the words of Karuna Rana:
“No treaty is better than a weak treaty. The fight isn’t over — plastic pollution is a health, ocean & climate crisis.” 💪
#INC5 #EndPlasticPollution

Warum Wurfringe am Strand eine Gefahr für Robben sind Wurfringe sind bei Strandbesucher*innen und ihren Hunden beliebt, doch für Robben sind sie extrem gefährlich. Denn wo es Strände gibt, gibt es oft auch zurückgelassenes Spielzeug, das Meerestieren sch...

#Plastikabkommen
#EndPlasticPollution
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
#Plastikvertrag
#INC5
#PlasticsTreaty
#StopPlastik
#Plastikmüll
#PlasticPollution
#Plastikfrei
#Umweltschutz

www.bund.net/themen/aktue...
16/18

Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks As nations began a second week of negotiations Monday for a global accord to end plastic pollution, an artist heaped piles of plastic waste onto a large sculpture in front of the United Nations…

#EndPlasticPollution

Fantastic artist's statement about the plastic crisis!

"Artist drowns sculpture in plastic waste in front of the UN during plastic pollution treaty talks"

apnews.com/article/plas...

Ask your city to ✔️Require 🥡🟢compostable takeout containers

✔️5¢ fee on 🛍️

#EndPlasticPollution

“big picture: Plastic makers—
oil/gas co’s—

spent millions marketing to Americans that plastic items
could be recycled♻️
…there wasn't a market for it.”
Most 🗑️landfilled

dec.ny.gov/environmenta...

🏆🏅protect 30% for Nature
✔️Montreal Treaty

#EndPlasticPollution made from #FossilFuels

How? Ask your City to

1 boycott buying plastic/
ban 1x use 🥤🧃plastic pkg

2 pass 5¢ bag fee🛍️

3 🎯
📈reusable
📉plastic

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

🖼️🖌️ Peter Kuper @pkuper.bsky.social

4/4

Globales Abkommen gegen Plastikmüll vorerst gescheitert Bis zum Ende hin waren die Positionen zu unversöhnlich: Nun ist klar, dass Verhandlungen in Genf über ein UN-Plastikabkommen vorerst gescheitert sind. Rund 180 Länder konnten sich nicht auf einen Vert...

Scheitern mit Ansage...

#UNPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

www.tagesschau.de/ausland/plas...

Thank you, 😊🙏😁 for birds & their habitat

@katharinehayhoe.com has good news & not-so-good news on #Climate solutions

✅do 1 more Next Step
To solve #climare faster

✅Copy NYC 5¢ plastic bag fee
Ask your city

dec.ny.gov/environmenta...

@unep.org
✅Aug 14 treaty to
#EndPlasticPollution

UN-Konferenz in Genf: Abkommen zu Plastikmüll droht zu scheitern UN-Konferenz in Genf: Plastikmüll soll verringert werden. Doch ein neuer Entwurf droht das Abkommen zu kippen. Es folgt scharfe Kritik

"Der Text ist ein Geschenk an die petrochemische Industrie und ein Verrat an der Menschheit"

(Kurzfristige) Wirtschaftliche Interessen sind offensichtlich wichtiger, als eine halbwegs lebenswerte Erde... 🤦‍♂️

#UNPlasticsTreaty #EndPlasticPollution

www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...

We can do 💚🌎More
on #Climate

As we work thru anger, would you be strategic? What can you say—stronger
📣Call to action?
🏟️What orgs can you tag?

1 cut 80% of 57Gt CO2e

2 copy
MN passed $750off ebike rebate; 15,000 applied for $2M fund

3 UN #EndPlasticPollution treaty Aug 14

4 $0.5T harm ^2

"Young people are on the frontlines of social & environmental movements."

Juan Carlos Monterrey Gomez of #Panama acknowledges youth potential in "moving mountains" and demanding for ambitious action to #EndPlasticPollution.

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows Exclusive finding by DeSmog shows high-level industry awareness that recycling plastic ‘not feasible’ as companies face lawsuits over alleged public deception campaign.

For more than 50 years the plastics industry knew recycling plastic wouldn't work. But it allowed them to keep growing and not change their model. Don't believe anything fossil fuel or plastics people tell you. #EndPlasticPollution #bioplastics

#EndPlasticPollution by Aug 14

“Scientists’ Coalition for an Effective Plastics Treaty”

•2022–formed
after countries agreed to “end plastic pollution”

•research done for treaty

•🆔 16,325 chemicals
in plastic products
2025 🔑analysis/journal Science

•use health metrics
@repamandahj.bsky.social

#EndPlasticPollution treaty by Aug 14

•phase out 🤢toxins
•cap 📉production, not 📈3x it
•pay 🗑️to cleanup existing waste
•only 9% plastic ♻️now recycled

High Ambition Coalition
70 countries want
ambitious, intl, legally binding
agreement

Norway & Rwanda Aug 2022
+
Canada
Peru
Senegal
South Korea
UK

📢🌍 On day 5 of #INC52 in Geneva, civil society staged a silent protest over the lack of progress in the #PlasticsTreaty.

💰 interests still outweigh human rights ✊ and 🌱 protection.
⏳ Time is running out.

#ClimateJustice #EndPlasticPollution

The Beyond Plastics Book Club — Beyond Plastics - Working To End Single-Use Plastic Pollution

Have you read 📚books? on
How to #EndPlasticPollution

List of
•kids books
•adult non-fiction

www.beyondplastics.org/book-club

📗Grass Isn’t Greener

📙Change Starts Now

📕Year of No Garbage

📘The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times/Goodall

What else can we do?
#EndPlasticPollution

36% 📦packaging
Incl 🥤🥡
•ask your City to require comparable♻️ takeout containers
•ask your city for 5¢ 🛍️bag fees

Farming
•Bring bags to grocery
•buy local & seasonal foods

Fishing

Clothes-avoid
•polyester
•acrylic
•nylon

www.unep.org/news-and-sto...

Big plastic polluting brands spotted at Global Plastics Treaty As the Global Plastics Treaty talks heat up, the big plastic polluters are back at the table. We’re giving a special mention to these big brands.

Day 4 of Global Plastics Treaty & world's biggest polluters out in force. Number of biggest polluters attending END PLASTIC POLLUTION TALKS is worrying. For years COCA COLA, PEPSI, MARS & NESTLE have dominated Dirty Dozen polluters 😡

#EndPlasticPollution
#GlobalPlasticsTreaty
#NoMoreDirtyTricks

Worth a read. UN global treaty discussing #EndPlasticPollution

“Many delegates, advocacy groups, UN officials are hopeful 10-day session
📆today - Aug 14,
will result in a final agreement

•cut production?
•phase out toxic chems?

Russia & oil producers block progress

Do nothing?
3x waste📈📈📈
9%♻️

#EndPlasticPollution #EndFossilFuels

🚨 🚨 You Are Contaminated 🚨 🚨

Beautifully-written opinion piece that really nails the toxic soup of plastic and chemical pollution we’re all living in 24/7 whether we realize it or not

Gift link - please share widely!
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

Here’s what to watch for at this month’s global plastics treaty talks Delegates are meeting in Geneva for a sixth — and potentially final — round of negotiations.

Great article explaining current negotiations on the Plastic Treaty & how we got there. Pressure is on to take significant, legally binding steps on reducing the harm plastic does to the planet. If only all the fossil fuel lobbyists weren't bent on derailing it. #EndPlasticPollution #stopfossilfuels

End Plastic Pollution | The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center for Data Science & Environment at Berkeley The ProblemGlobal plastics pollution is an urgent and growing concern that is exacerbating the climate crisis, creating threats to endangered species and at-risk ecosystems, putting human health at ri...

This week the United Nations will negotiate a global treaty on #PlasticPollution. DSE's findings in @science.org revealed that by 2050, key policies could:

♻️ Reduce mismanaged plastic waste by up to 91%
🌞 Cut associated greenhouse gasses by 1/3

dse.berkeley.edu/programs/end... #EndPlasticPollution