Dear John,

While the entertainment industry has ground to a halt, with both the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild on strike for fair contracts, we at Plastic Pollution Coalition are continuing to work behind the scenes to ensure Hollywood can return to work free of plastic pollution, both on screen and on set.

We’ve been working hard to Flip the Script on Plastics. Thanks to your generous donations, over the last six months we have:

• Collaborated with SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher to launch the Green Council in partnership with the Motion Picture Association, which is focused on banning single-use plastic bottles from Hollywood sets
  
  
• Partnered with Hollywood, Health & Society, to lead a group of TV writers on an educational Plastic Pollution Toxic Tour across Los Angeles, to inform them of the harmful effects of plastics throughout their existence, so they can turn this knowledge into compelling, factual entertainment
  
  
• Sponsored the Hollywood Climate Summit, where change makers in both entertainment and environmental justice gathered to take on climate change
  
  
• Spotlighted our favorite reusables on TV for Plastic Free July
  
  
• Curated a webinar with entertainment industry leaders on Greening Hollywood Sets to Flip the Script on Plastics

We will keep working to ensure that the climate justice movement within Hollywood continues to move forward, working with our coalition partners, industry leaders and insiders, and entertainment unions, to ensure that, once their contract demands are met, they return to work with all the tools necessary to remove single-use plastics from their sets and our screens.

We know that life imitates art, and by showing package-free and reusable and refillable systems in popular television shows and movies, we influence culture and change the perception of toxic throwaway plastic as being normal—because it’s not.

With gratitude,

Amelia Hanson
Flip the Script on Plastics Project Coordinator
Plastic Pollution Coalition