And here’s something the petrochemical companies don’t want you to know: Plastics and fracking are two sides of the same coin!
The rapid expansion of fracking across the country created a gas glut that drove fracked gas prices to the lowest levels in decades. That meant fracked gas companies needed to find additional markets to absorb the excess supply and bring prices back up. The plastics industry has been coming to the rescue of Big Oil & Gas. And the fracking industry couldn’t have dreamt of a better ally: a polluting partner to absorb the huge supply of cheap fracked gas that no one else wanted.
This dirty alliance has trapped us in a continuous contamination cycle that endangers our water, air and the future of our planet — it’s often called the “fracking-to-plastics pipeline.”
John, fracked gas is supercharging the plastics industry, contributing to climate-wrecking emissions and causing catastrophic impacts on ocean ecosystems and wildlife. As plastics find their way to the oceans, they’re poisoning and killing marine life.
As plastics break down they form microplastics that end up in the food we eat, the water we drink and even the air we breathe. They're everywhere.
People and wildlife are more important than corporate profits! That’s why we must ban fracking, stop the plastics explosion and stand with communities to fight for a better future.
Wenonah Hauter
Founder and Executive Director
Food & Water Watch
Food & Water Watch and its affiliated organization, Food & Water Action, are advocacy groups with a common mission to protect our food, water and climate. This email was sent to [email protected] - and we're glad you got it, because it's one of the most important ways you can reclaim political power, hold elected officials accountable and resist corporate control.
