PLASTICS: The New World Disorder • Troubling Trends • Partial & False Solutions • Turning off the Tap

Oil & gas supply drivers Plastics Industry Expansion Almost 4x current Less valuable to recycling systems 2x current After decades of continuous growth, global plastic production is expected to double in the next 20 years, almost quadruple by 2050 RECYCLING WON’T SOLVE THIS PROBLEM Oil & gas supply drivers TROUBLING TRENDS

Packaging Currently 26% of all plastics At this rate, by 2050 plastic packaging volumes would be more than the entire plastics industry today (318 million tons annually) TROUBLING TRENDS

Enter the Sachet TROUBLING TRENDS METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JULY 2016 way use of plastic is expanding Show sachets, tell TV ads Who is pushing this? TROUBLING TRENDS METRO MANILA, PHILIPPINES, JULY 2016

Same report: projected would be as much plastics as fish in ocean by 2050 TROUBLING TRENDS Source: The New Plastics Economy, ellenmacarthurfoundation.org

Plastic Industry’s False Solutions American Chemistry Council (ACC) pushes incineration for plastics “Definitions of renewable energy should be broadened to include energy from non-recycled plastics.” -ACC website

Turning off the Tap Global: 200+ Orgs demanded better We work with our cities and communities to conserve what’s left of our quickly-diminishing natural resources … through reduction of waste and problematic products, redesign, reuse, repair, re-purposing, recycling, composting, and other solutions…

Turning off the Tap Indonesia, Bangladesh, more: nat’l action on bags

Turning off the Tap Taiwan, more…: local bottled water, food packaging bans

Turning off the Tap India: Multiple state bans on styrofoam, bags National multilayer packaging ban on the table

Turning off the Tap Philippines & many countries: Zero Waste leadership

Monica Wilson GAIA monica@no-burn.org 510-883-9490 x103