John, this is shocking: Planet-wide, we've consumed nearly as many resources in the last six years as we did in the entire 20th century.1
And far too many of those resources ultimately end up as pollution, including growing piles of plastic waste. In the United States alone, we throw away enough plastic to fill up the country's largest football stadium every 16 hours.2
PIRG is working to phase out the most wasteful plastics, hold polluters accountable, and keep plastic producers from misleading us by labeling products "recyclable" when they're all but guaranteed to become trash or litter.
It won't be easy, but we have decades of experience taking on tough campaigns, and winning real results. That's why generous donors are matching gifts, dollar for dollar, until midnight tonight -- up to $10,000 nationwide.
Make your September Drive gift now and double your impact to help move our country beyond plastic.
Thank you for making it all possible,
Faye Park
President
1. "The Circularity Gap Report 2024," Circle Economy Foundation, last accessed September 25, 2025.
2. "Trash in America," PIRG, September 28, 2021.
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From: U.S. PIRG <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, September 25, 2025
Subject: Double your impact: Help cut plastic pollution
To: John xxxxxx <[email protected]>
John,
With plastic infiltrating every part of our world -- even our bodies -- the work to reduce plastic waste and pollution is more urgent than ever.
We need to do more to expose the plastic industry's misinformation about how few of their products are actually being recycled.
We need to do more to limit or eliminate single-use plastic bags, takeout containers and other forms of wasteful packaging.
We need to do more to hold the producers of plastic accountable for the waste they're dumping on consumers and communities.
But we can't do more without your help. And if you give right now, your donation will be matched dollar for dollar, up to $10,000 nationwide.
The plastic made today will be on this Earth for a long, long, long time: It's estimated that some plastics may take 500 years to decompose -- and even then, not completely.1
Worse, plastic production is expected to almost triple by 2060. That means more plastic piled onto landfills, more toxic fumes as plastic is burned in incinerators, more plastic trash in our parks, playgrounds and forests, and more tiny bits of plastic entering our water, air and bodies.2
We're working to prove that "triple by 2060" prediction dead-wrong. But we need everybody who's alarmed by plastic waste and pollution on board, working together.
Our team knows how to tackle the plastic problem. PIRG has helped pass laws that will help limit single-use plastics and hold producers accountable for their waste, including reducing single-use plastics and supporting producer responsibility laws. We've helped convince companies to reduce their plastic use. But we must do more.
Will you join PIRG supporters in donating to help reduce plastic pollution?
Thank you,
Faye Park
President
1. "In Images: Plastic is forever," United Nations, June 2021.
2. "Global plastic waste set to almost triple by 2060, says OECD," Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, March 6, 2022.
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