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Who Tops Canada’s Plastic Polluters List This Year?
For a second year, members of the global Break Free From Plastic movement, community groups and individuals have set out to answer the question – Who’s responsible for the plastic…
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Nestlé, Tim Hortons top Greenpeace Canada’s Plastic Polluter List for Second Year
MONTRÉAL – Today, Greenpeace Canada released its 2019 Top 5 Plastic Polluters list, with Nestlé and Tim Hortons ranked in the top two positions for the second year in a…
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Why Single Use is Not the Future Option
Thanks to pressure from people all around the world, brands and retailers know they need to take responsibility for creating this global plastic waste and pollution epidemic. We are increasingly…
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Greenpeace report exposes how multinationals are pretending to solve the plastic crisis
Vancouver – A Greenpeace USA report released yesterday, Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have It Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions,” warns consumers to be skeptical of the so-called…
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Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions”
A Greenpeace USA report, Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution “Solutions”, warns against the so-called solutions announced by multinationals to deal with the plastic pollution crisis.
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Leading National Environmental Organizations Release Responses from Federal Parties on 10 Environmental Priority Questions
Today, Canada’s leading environmental organizations released the answers to a Federal Party Survey on Environmental Platforms that address the climate change, biodiversity, toxics and waste crises harming our country. The survey was…
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Join the global plastic pollution cleanup day and do a mini brand audit!
It’s Brand Audit time again and alongside our allies in the global Break Free From Plastic movement, we’re inviting folks to help gather data from across Canada and around the…
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Avoiding the back to school/work plastic blues on your next shopping mission
How is it the end of (northern hemisphere) summer already?! I don’t know about you, but I am so not ready to give up patio lunches, say goodbye to the…
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REACTION: WHO’s report – research must go on
Montréal – In response to the WHO report into the effects of microplastics on human health, Greenpeace Canada Head of Oceans and Plastics campaign responded: “This WHO report clearly acknowledges…
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Marc Gasol joins Greenpeace to fight plastic pollution
Toronto – Today, Toronto Raptors player Marc Gasol announced he will join Greenpeace’s campaign to stop single-use plastics. “I would like to make this world a much more sustainable place…