A MESSAGE FOR YOU As I reflect on all the work we’ve done together this year, your dedication to protecting our food, water, and climate stands out as an inspiration. I’m so grateful because your care and commitment are needed now more than ever. With gift-giving season fast approaching, it seems timely to focus on plastic in this issue of Livable Future NOW . Corporations like Amazon will soon be extra busy shipping huge numbers of orders in their plastic packaging, adding to the already crisis-level plastic pollu- tion problem. Plastic has contaminated our water, air, and food across the globe. We must demand change now. Because of you, we’ve formed the Plastic Action Team, a passionate group of volunteers focused on tack- ling plastic pollution. They’re working to stop single-use plastic production and hold corporations accountable for cleaning up their messes. Your generosity this season will immediately strengthen our efforts to build a future where our environment is free of plastic pollution, and everyone thrives with safe water, food, air, and climate. Thank you for never giving up on our planet!
AMAZON FUELS PLASTIC POLLUTION. HOW YOU’RE TAKING ACTION. The blue-and-white bubble mailer signaling the arrival of an Amazon delivery has become a common sight in many neighborhoods. It’s also adding to the flood of plastic currently poisoning our environment, contributing to climate change, and endangering our health. The e-commerce behemoth will soon fill porches and mailboxes with its plastic packages as it gears up for gift-giving season. It’s high time we hold corporations like Amazon accountable for their plastic waste. Plastic packaging harms people and planet Amazon generated 709 million pounds of plastic packaging in 2021, with an estimated 26 million pounds destined to pollute our oceans and water- ways. This poses a huge threat to environmental and public health. When plastic degrades, it breaks down into tiny pieces called microplastics and nanoplastics. They
Wenonah Hauter Executive Director
Cover: Kathy Cook, a Volunteer Leader on the Plastic Action Team, stands outside the West Vincent Township building, where she successfully urged township supervisors to ban plastic bags for businesses. Go Kathy! Photo by Libby Madarasz
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