Create a Circular Economy

Our country has a plastic addiction with a devastating impact on our oceans, wildlife, and health. Ban all single-use plastic, including oxo-degradable and Styrofoam, and invest in alternative materials.

The Problem

We make too much, use too much. and dispose of too much plastic.

Our Plan

Mandate clean-up efforts by polluters.

• Ban all single-use plastic, including oxo-degradable and Styrofoam, and invest in alternative materials. 

• Create a value chain for existing plastic sitting in landfills to increase efficiency in recycling.

• Invest in technology that decomposes plastic in a natural way, such as enzymes that eat plastic, or the Burd project. 

This Matters

Imagine a single plastic fork. In a landfill, it can take up to 1,000 years to decompose. Now think of the impact that enormous piles of plastic containers, cups, bottles, balloons, Q-tips, coffee cup lids, and disposable plastic razors have on our environment. This norm is not sustainable.

Landfills are running out of space, and unless we want landfills in our backyards, our best bet is to reduce our comfort with consumption. People have lived for thousands of years without takeout containers and plastic bottles. We don’t need them or the side effects of drilling for the fossil fuels needed to make them. While plastic has created an economic cycle of its own, the industry must source products in innovative and new ways.