Your Signature is Needed: Stop plastic from killing baby sea turtles

Friend, from the very moment of production, plastics are harming our planet and every aspect of life on Earth: ● FIRST → Massive amounts of fossil fuels are burned to make plastic, emitting harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and worsening global warming. ● MEANWHILE → The hazardous pollutants from these industrial-sized facilities are released into the air, posing serious health risks for nearby residents, who are most often rural, low-wealth, and communities of color. ● THEN → A garbage truck of plastic waste ends up in the ocean every minute, killing over a million marine species like baby sea turtles that often mistake plastic debris for food, become entangled in it, or choke to death. ● OR → The plastic that doesn’t end up in our waters and oceans gets dumped into landfills or burned, seeping into the soils, contaminating our crops and air, building up and accumulating on Earth without decomposing. ● NOW → Because plastic doesn’t disappear, it instead breaks down into tiny toxic microplastics that are currently making their way into our food, water, and air. ● …SOON → If plastic pollution continues at this rate, plastics will completely consume our planet, and the PLASTIC APOCALYPSE will threaten to destroy life on Earth as we know it. We still have the chance to END this vicious cycle and STOP plastics from taking over the planet. But we need your help pressuring the Biden administration to take bold action immediately. [Are you still in this fight to defend the Earth against plastic pollution? Add your name now! >>]( [SIGN THE PETITION]( Let’s be clear, Friend: The federal government has FAILED to adequately curb the plastic crisis -- and it has enabled greedy fossil fuel and plastic corporations to gain control, operating at a massive scale, while raking in astronomical profits. After the shale gas boom significantly increased drilling and fracking in the U.S., the plastic industry has built a powerful empire. Since then, Big Plastic and Big Oil have yet to be held accountable by the EPA for plastic’s devastating environmental harms to people, wildlife, and the planet. Today, plastic consumption is up 4 TIMES what it was 30 years ago, and unless the EPA steps up right away to reign in rampant plastic pollution, our planet will soon face catastrophic consequences. [This isn’t a future problem -- this is happening RIGHT NOW,]( PLASTIC APOCALYPSE could occur during this lifetime if we don’t step up and demand urgent solutions. Tell the federal government to protect our planet from plastics before it’s too late! >>]( [SIGN THE PETITION]( Thanks for your urgent action, Friends of the Earth Contact Us: Friends of the Earth U.S. Washington, D.C. | Berkeley, CA 1-877-843-8687 [Contact us](foe.org/about-us/contact/) Email Preferences: [Click here to unsubscribe]( Learn more: www.foe.org/news www.foe.org/about-us www.foeaction.org Connect: [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Flickr]( © 2021, Friends of the Earth. All Rights Reserved. [supporter]