Friend, there are just 7 hours left this Giving Tuesday. We aren't quite at our goal, but I know that we can get across the finish line tonight.

PIRG and our network have a 50 year track record of bringing people together around solutions that work, and not stopping until we get real results. Just this year, we helped lead the charge by passing a producer responsibility law in Colorado, and an important truth in recycling law in California.

Grassroots supporters like you have fueled our work every step of the way. We don't take a penny from corporations, and that means we're counting on you to keep our momentum going. Are you with us?

Until Giving Tuesday is over, generous donors are matching contributions dollar for dollar, up to $20,000 nationwide. Double your impact by making your matched Giving Tuesday gift before midnight.

Thank you for making it all possible,

Faye

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From: U.S. PIRG <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Nov 29, 2022
Subject: Today’s Giving Tuesday -- let’s move our country beyond plastic
To: Friend <[email protected]>

Friend,

Every single year, the United States generates an unbelievable 42 million metric tons of plastic waste. We're the world's single biggest plastic polluter.1

PIRG is working to change that.

We're campaigning to ban the worst single-use plastics, hold producers responsible for the pollution their products are designed to become, and convince major corporations to get rid of the plastic packaging they just don't need.

We have a decades-long track record of getting the job done. That's why generous donors will match your Giving Tuesday gift to PIRG, up to $20,000 nationwide, until midnight tonight.

Donate now to double your impact and help us move our country beyond plastic.

Until midnight tonight, generous donors are matching gifts to PIRG, up to $20,000 nationwide.

PIRG has decades of experience standing up for the public interest, and we know that we have what it takes to tackle a challenge as big as the plastic waste crisis. With your help, here's how we're going to get it done:

• Calling on major retailers, including Whole Foods, Costco and Amazon, to get rid of unnecessary single-use plastic packaging. Earlier this year, we helped convince Coca-Cola to commit to an important first step in reducing its plastic waste.2 Donate now >>
• Working to ban some of the worst single-use plastics at the state level, and to hold companies responsible for the waste their products are designed to become. Just this year, we helped lead the charge by passing a producer responsibility law in Colorado, and an important truth in recycling law in California. Donate now >>
• Building support for federal action to tackle the plastic waste crisis, including the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act. After our national network mobilized activists to send tens of thousands of messages to decision makers, the Biden administration committed to important first steps to phase single-use plastic out of our national parks.3 Donate now >>

We're making steady progress, but there's still so much more work to be done, and we're up against fierce opposition every step of the way.

As a citizen-funded organization, PIRG doesn't take donations from corporations. Instead, we rely on the support of people like you who know that commonsense solutions exist to problems that we should no longer tolerate -- problems like our growing plastic waste crisis.

Help give the gift of a plastic-free world to future generations by making your matched donation now.

Thank you for your support,

Faye Park
President

1. Oliver Milman, "'Deluge of plastic waste': US is world's biggest plastic polluter," The Guardian, December 1, 2021.
2. "Consumer, environmental advocates welcome Coca-Cola's Commitment to Reuse," U.S. PIRG, February 10, 2022.
3. "Biden administration commits to removing single-use plastic from national parks," U.S. PIRG, July 20, 2022.

Your donation will power our dedicated staff of organizers, policy experts and attorneys who drive all of our campaigns in the public interest, from banning Roundup and moving us beyond plastic, to saving our antibiotics and being your consumer watchdog, to protecting our environment and our democracy. None of our work would be possible without the support of people just like you.

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