Don't you think it is time to stop producing plastic?

Definitely. It's time we think about the poor sea creatures who have to endure plastic as their food just so that we can have a bar of chocolate or a drink of coke #humanityisneedeed

This is a very helpful website especially for research or guiding questions. You are also right

I feel that as ENGLISH is the world language it would be a good idea to have ENGLISH in every coumtry on your listing. I live here in Germany and on your listing of countries there is English not mentioned. There are many English visitors to these countres. Please try that too. Thank You Very Much for what you are doing. I am an American and travel all over the Globe. I would like to see this printed in these countries too.

Thank you for all your hardwork, greenpeace! You are all awesome! Dear companies, now's your chance to make a difference :)

Could you hold our government officials responsible for legislaton to mandate plastic controls at the source? With helpful automated links based on zip code to "your officials". Thank you for taking the lead in this planet concious endeavor.

This is why I do not drink any thing in plastic.

We need to become Liliputs from the Gullivers that we are in terms of our footprints! In Tezpur , Assam, Pravodhana, an NGO helps Puja celebrations go plastic free by employing villagers who make plates out of the fleshly trunk of the banana tree that goes abundantly here. Everyday for 5 days , an avoid 500 plates were made for the community feast. Each one of us can contribute to change!

but isn't it the consumers fault not the company itself

Great question. But think about it this way: if your sink is overflowing with water what is the first thing you do? Mop up the floor? Scoop up the water? Or turn off the tap?

No amount of recycling or beach clean ups can get us out of this plastic crisis, and plastic producers are set to increase production by an additional 40% over the next decade. That’s why to truly turn off the tap on plastic we need to stop its production in the first place.

How can we get the companies to hear us? Most of them will just ignore us because they simply dont care as long as they have their money, unfortunately a lot of poeple in our world are like that

Hi Bia. The more that people speak up and #BreakFreeFromPlastic, the more that companies will listen and it will be impossible to ignore! Find out more here https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/lets-end-the-age-of-plastic/

When talking about replacing plastic, it's only viable once we have a far higher percentage of renewable energy in usage as the alternatives to plastic are far more energy intensive in production. Replacing plastic bottles with glass bottles would increase the emissions per bottle immensly, which is why I believe that in the current situation banning plastic is short sighted measure.

Also since most of the plastic waste is from the developing world, wouldn't it be better to levy a tax on plastic to improve waste collection in these countries? A dollar spent there would probably have a greater effect than a dollar spent in the developed world.

Greenpeace do you have a reply for this. If it costs more energy to make glass than plastic there is no benefit. Reply please.

Without Plastic use permits and regulation, without laws punishable by fines and imprisonment, plastic is just another part of the acute extinction event of late, on earth. What I really don't understand is; why is something so simple and obvious, is taking so long? It's not like any manufacturer is going to lose money. The extra cost of business is inevitably passed on to the consumer. Don't feel like your paying for the past; rather you are paying for the future. We don't have to die this young.

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Boycott boycott boycott. Like it was done in SOUTH AFRICA during late 70`s 80`s against apartheid and it did work - so it must be done to all 10. There must be other products 1 can rely on if 1 only opened ones eyes to look around and take notice . The directors of all these companies should be hit hard where it hurts [in the back pocket]- like 40% of their annual salary or the share holders- like 50% of the companies annual profits . Just MAYBE they will take notice then- MAYBE. Hit them all where it hurts most- MONEY and BOYCOTT their products today.

The plastic problem haunts me on a regular basis! I know plastic is not biodegradable, you can't burn it without polluting the air we breathe. I worry about our earth and future generations! I worry about the oceans and know that if trash is disposed of long enough in the current manner our oceans will simply become a large floating garbage dump. I care enough about the future of our planet to sign up for this program and hope that it will have a positive impact on how my trash today affects future generations tomorrow!

How about Green peace starting a one day boycott campaign on boycotting plastics. This would raise public awareness . The boycott could focus on the 10 big corporations who continue to use throw away plastics such as coca cola, pepsi, nestle . Take the lead Green peace.!!

I AM,WE ARE CHANGE! HOLD THE YOURSELF ACCOUNTABLE AND THOSE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE.

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All plastic water bottles must be replaced by aluminum cans,& packaging as should be buckets,bowls & household items.

All ships over the world which are no longer being used should be donated to the 12yr count down to save our planet earth- people in jail could work off there sentences by helping to clean up those large plastic ocean eddies like the one between Hawaii & USA - the size of QLD in Australia/or twice the size of France. & that not the only 1 in the ocean.

Even if we could remove all the plastic visible to the human eye- there are still the tiny nodules of plastic between the south & north pole a 1/300th of the size of a piece of plankton- it will take 2000 - 5000yrs B4 the nodules dissolve entirely & will wipe out 80% of all marine life.

There should be heavy penalties for people dumping plastic & not $ fines but they should be made to pick up plastic & rubbish-as a fine won't teach them anything.

Fishing permits should be enforced as fish don't have a chance with the now a days technology.

There should be weekly news updates on these massive ocean sea eddies of plastic in the ocean. It was once on the news in January 2018 & nothing since- people should be constantly kept up to date on this problem,& the amount of plastic that is washed up on the beachs in Bali & all the other tourists beaches. Bali employees people to pick up all the plastic thats been washed up on the beach at 3-4am every morning, so all the rubbish has gone B4 the tourists go to the beach in the morning. This should be on the news every NIGHT so its infront of there faces. Its only then that people-will bseeegin to see how bad this problem really is. & taught at schools in every country.

We have 12yrs to turn this around B4 it becomes irreversible.

All fossil fuel should be outlawed & only solar & wind turbines should be used.

& all the waste uranium should be put in a rocket & sent into the sun & then all uranium facilities should be shut down 4ever.

Please have all the companies to pay for the fines of using the environment damage to send them the evidence from them products to email back to them head office have green peace peoples to give them the damage that they have caused please have everyone to sign an petition to end plastic materials with an banned from the materials being ever used again

Tip: people get more motivated to help the environment if all the news weren’t so negative. We all already know that there is a crisis and that it’s an urgent matter, but what we need to know is how to contribute and that there are people that have done progress. We need to know that people have succeeded. Almost everybody thinks that it’s already to late to do something because of all the accusations and comments everywhere saying that the world is “going under”. That’s not what we need. Does a child perform well if you tell it everything it did wrong? No! You believe in it and keep motivating it! That’s what we need. Motivation.