Educational Links

Awareness is the first step towards change. The below resources will give you an overview of the plastic pollution crisis and what can be done to improve it.

• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  An independent agency of the United States federal government that is focused on environmental protection.

  • Bottled Water Fact Sheet

• United Nations Environment Programme

  A United Nations program responsible for the UN's environmental activities including promoting environmental science and information, working on developing and implementing policy, and funding & implementing environmental development projects.

  • Single-Use Plastics: A Roadmap for Sustainability

  • Beat Plastic Pollution

  • The State of Plastics:  World Environment Day Outlook 2018

  • Clean Seas

  • Unwrapping the risks of plastic pollution to the insurance industry

• Plastic Pollution Coalition

  A global alliance of individuals, organizations, businesses, and policymakers advocating for a plastic-free world.

• Plastic Oceans

  A nonprofit organization raising awareness about plastic pollution to inspire behavior change.

  • Resources

• Plastic Soup Foundation

  An organization focused entirely on plastic working to make everyone familiar with the phenomenon of “plastic soup” and how we can stop it.

• Ellen Macarthur Foundation: New Plastic Economy

  A global initiative that brings together organizations, experts, and entrepreneurs to innovate, collaborate, and rethink how to produce, use, and recover plastics, starting with packaging. 

  • New Plastics Economy

• Container Recycling Institute

  A nonprofit focused on making North America a global model for the collection and quality recycling of packaging materials.

• World Environment Day

  An informational site supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety that provides information on World Environment Day on June 5th.

• My Little Plastic Footprint

  An app that helps you to reduce your plastic consumption through sustainable alternatives.

• Statista: Bottled Water Market

  A website providing statistics on global bottled water consumption.

• Our World in Data: Plastic Pollution

  A research and data resource provided by researchers at the University of Oxford and the non-profit Global Change Data Lab.

• Natural Resources Defense Council: The Truth About Tap

  An article discussing the safety and regulation of tap water and bottled water.

• Outrage + Optimism Podcast

  A podcast about facing the climate crisis hosted by former UN chief Christiana Figueres.