A baby sea turtle CHOKES TO DEATH after mistaking a drifting plastic bag for a tasty jellyfish. Before the mama turtle can help, she becomes TRAPPED and ENTANGLED in other plastic waste.

This tragic tale is the inevitable result of our planet’s accelerating plastics crisis, Friend. And it’s greedy fossil fuel corporations that are the source of most single-use plastics. They and other profit-seeking companies are polluting our air, water, and food and drowning our oceans in enough plastic to fill a garbage truck every minute!

Scientists predict there will be MORE PLASTIC THAN FISH in the ocean by 2050! But it’s not just the marine critters who suffer -- people are unknowingly consuming plastic too. In fact, the average person consumes a credit card’s worth of plastic EVERY WEEK! Please, Friend, tell President Biden to save our oceans from the plastics apocalypse and to protect people and wildlife before it’s too late!

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The reality gets even uglier when you go back to how these plastics are created in the first place. Giant plastic production facilities spew pollution onto nearby communities -- largely low-wealth communities and communities of color. The people who live here face increased risk of cancer, respiratory diseases, and other illnesses while plastic corporation executives RAKE in the profits!

The plastics crisis is getting worse every minute we fail to act, Friend. More waste is being dumped into our oceans. More tiny plastics break down and infect our food and water. But if you help us send a powerful message to President Biden RIGHT NOW, we can help make a difference. Fight the PLASTICS APOCALYPSE: add your name by 11:59pm TONIGHT!

Standing with you,
Michelle Chan
Vice president of programs,
Friends of the Earth