Plastics

Alaska Community Action on Toxics

Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) works with communities, implementing effective strategies to limit their exposure to toxic substances and to protect and restore the ecosystems that sustain them and their way of life. With a focus on Environmental Health impacts in the Arctic region, they work to eliminate the production and release of harmful chemicals by industry and military sources, ensure the public’s right-to-know, achieve policies based on the precautionary principle, and support the rights of Indigenous peoples. ACAT coordinates CHE-Alaska, providing opportunities to learn about the best available science through CHE-related activities, such as partnership webinars and news updates.

Beyond Plastics

Beyond Plastics pairs the wisdom and experience of environmental policy experts with the energy and creativity of grassroots advocates. Beyond Plastics seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public on the plastic pollution crisis; encourage businesses to eliminate single-use plastics; train students to become leaders in the anti-plastics movement; and help block new plastic manufacturing and plastic burning facilities.

Center for International Environmental Law

Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) uses the power of law to protect the environment, promote human rights, and ensure a just and sustainable society. With offices in Washington, DC, and Geneva, Switzerland, CIEL’s team of attorneys, policy experts, and support staff works to provide legal counsel and advocacy, policy research, and capacity building across our three program areas: Climate & Energy, Environmental Health, and People, Land, & Resources.

Clean Production Action

Clean Production Action ​​(CPA) designs and delivers strategic solutions for green chemicals, sustainable materials, and environmentally preferable products. CPA translates the systems-based vision of clean production into tools and strategies that NGOs, governments, and businesses can use to advance green chemicals, sustainable materials, and environmentally preferable products.

Defend Our Health

Defend Our Health is an environmental public health and justice nonprofit organization based in Maine. Defend works to create a world where all people are thriving, with equal access to safe food and drinking water, healthy homes, and products that are toxic-free and climate-friendly.

Earthjustice

Earthjustice is the premier nonprofit public interest environmental law organization. They wield the power of law and the strength of partnership to protect people’s health, to preserve magnificent places and wildlife, to advance clean energy, and to combat climate change.

International Pollution Elimination Network

International Pollution Elimination Network (IPEN) is a global network forging a healthier world where people and the environment are no longer harmed by the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals. Over 600 public interest NGOs in more than 120 countries, largely low- and middle-income nations, comprise IPEN and work to strengthen global and national chemicals and waste policies, contribute to ground-breaking research, and build a global movement for a toxics-free future.