We Want a #PlasticFreePresident!

We need the next president to lead the fight to end the plastic pollution crisis. The Surfrider Foundation joined 550 other environmental groups urging President-elect Joe Biden to become a #PlasticFreePresident. In a monumental effort led by the Center for Biological Diversity with Surfrider Foundation as a convening partner, the NGO community is fighting plastic pollution banded together to make this critical request of the incoming President of the United States.

The Presidential Plastics Action Plan urges the incoming President to reduce single-use plastic pollution and address the harms of the entire plastics lifecycle. The request consists of eight executive actions that can be taken by the federal executive branch. These include:

1. Use the purchasing power of the federal government to eliminate single-use plastic items and replace them with reusable products;

2. Suspend and deny permits for new or expanded plastic production facilities, associated infrastructure projects, and exports;

3. Make corporate polluters pay and reject false solutions;

4. Advance environmental justice in petrochemical corridors;

5. Update existing federal regulations using the best available science and technology to curtail pollution from plastic facilities;

6. Stop subsidizing plastic producers;

7. Join international efforts to address the global plastic pollution crisis through new and strengthened multilateral agreements;

8. Reduce and mitigate the impacts of abandoned, discarded, and lost fishing gear.

Join the movement to call for a #PlasticFreePresident and sign the petition here to call upon the next President of the United States to lead the country toward a plastic-free environment.