This is shocking, John: Globally, we've consumed as many resources in just the last 6 years as we did in the entire 20th century.[1]
If we're going to leave a sustainable world for future generations, we need to make and use less in the first place. And that starts with moving beyond the most wasteful single-use plastics.
PIRG is leading the charge to phase out the worst plastics, and to convince corporations to use less plastic in the first place. We know it won't be easy, but we have decades of experience taking on tough campaigns, and winning real results. That's why generous donors will match donations until midnight tonight -- up to $10,000 nationwide.
As our fiscal year comes to a close, we're assessing what resources we'll have to keep our work going in the year ahead. Donate before midnight to take a stand against plastic waste and double your impact.
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Faye Park
President
1. "2023 Sustainability Report," Amazon, last accessed March 28, 2025.
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From: U.S. PIRG <
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Date: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Subject: Mountains of plastic: It doesn’t have to be like this
To: John xxxxxx <
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John,
Pristine beaches -- or trash-strewn shorelines?
Vital oceans brimming with healthy marine life -- or sick sea creatures drifting on plastic-clotted currents?
Meadows painted pastel with wildflowers -- or cascading piles of garbage?
The choices seem obvious, and yet each day we release more single-use plastic into the environment -- America alone throws out enough plastic to fill the Dallas Cowboys stadium every 16 hours.[1]
The cost of continuing to produce single-use plastics could not be clearer. Will you donate to our 2025 End of Fiscal Year Drive and help fuel our work to move beyond plastic?
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Single-use plastics present themselves as the convenient option -- the alternative to scrubbing dishes and lugging around heavy water bottles. Instead of the five minutes it takes to pack up a picnic, why not just dump all those pesky food containers straight into the trash, right?
But this front-end convenience comes at a cost. Single-use plastics are transforming our planet, and not for the better.
You can do your best to avoid single-use plastics, but when massive companies like Sysco, the world's largest food distributor, and Amazon, the largest online retailer, continue to wrap their products in unnecessary plastic destined for the trashcan, individual change is all but impossible.[2,3]
We're going to the source, calling on these companies and many more to commit to using less single-use plastics. To make that possible, we've set a goal of raising $25,000 by June 30 to fuel our work in the year ahead: Donate today to help us move our country beyond plastic.
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We've already had some important victories. Just last year, after years of campaigning by PIRG, Environment America and other groups, Amazon committed to phasing out plastic air pillows -- that's 15 billion plastic air pillows that will no longer be entering our environment and clotting our waterways annually.[4]
These victories are exciting, but we can't stop now.
Plastic production is on pace to double by 2050 if we continue with business as usual.[5] We can't let this happen -- it'll take continued pressure and lots of support to shut off the faucet of single-use plastic for good.
Make the choice to support a world free of plastic pollution by making your 2025 End of Fiscal Year Drive donation today.
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Thank you,
Faye Park
President
1. Matt Casale, "It's time for Sysco to move beyond single-use plastic," PIRG, February 16, 2023.
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2. Matt Casale, "It's time for Sysco to move beyond single-use plastic," PIRG, February 16, 2023.
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3. Farnia Ghavami, "Amazon Ecommerce Facts and Statistics," Digital Commerce 360, last accessed May 27, 2025.
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4. "STATEMENT: Amazon announces 'largest reduction in plastic packaging' in North America," PIRG, June 20, 2024.
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5. Laura Parker, "The world's plastic pollution crisis, explained," National Geographic, September 23, 2024.
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