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More than 99 percent of plastic is made from fossil fuels, and by 2050, the oil and petrochemical industry wants to triple plastic production as the next frontier. This means fossil fuel companies are gearing up to shift production to pump out more and more plastic packaging for major global consumers, like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé. 

This transition by the fossil fuel industry from oil to plastics will be just as harmful for people and the planet. Petrochemical and plastic production have deadly health and environmental impacts and a long history of environmental racism, from the U.S. Gulf Coast's “Cancer Alley” where the plastic industry is poisoning Black, Brown and Frontline communities to China's "Cancer Village" in the Global South.  

To tackle the climate crisis, we must break free from single-use plastics made from fossil fuels. 

Tell Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Nestlé to ditch plastic made from fossil fuels and switch to reuse and refill solutions NOW.

"Effectively, plastic is another form of fossil fuel," says Prof Reisner, who is professor of energy and sustainability at the University of Cambridge. "It's rich in energy and in chemical composition, which we want to unlock."

But the chemical bonds that make up plastics are made to last and, of the seven billion tonnes ever created, less than 10% has been recycled.

Dilyana Mihaylova, plastics programme manager for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, says: "Our extractive, take-make-waste economy [means] billions of dollars' worth of valuable materials are lost."