BFFP Newsletter 🌍 📰 : AI Webinar, I Love Your Product but Not Your Packaging Campaign, and other stories!

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September 30, 2025

I Love Your Product but Not Your Packaging

The Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco from Mexico launched its campaign “I love your product, but not your packaging” to bring companies and consumers together to find practical ways to implement extended producer responsibility.

"It is very important that in supermarkets, but also in any other points of sales, consumers have access to products that come in truly circular packaging. This requires redesigning for reuse and returnability in product packaging. As consumers, we want products that are not designed to be disposable because they cause plastic particles to migrate into food," explained Maite Cortés, Colectivo Ecologista Jalisco´s Executive Director.

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BFFP Webinar and Discussion: Basics of AI

Join us for a discussion-based webinar on October 14, 2025, at 10:00 PM Philippine Time | 7:00 AM PST | 3:00PM CET, where we’ll break down the basics of AI, including the differences between AI, generative AI, and machine learning.

We’ll also share a bit about BFFP’s AI guidelines as an example of how you can set your own. The session includes a 20-minute Q&A to address your burning questions, so don’t forget to fill out the pre-webinar form so we can prepare discussion points.

Plastic pellets (AKA “nurdles”) on a leaf in the Pennsylvania waterways outside of the Styropek facility, which now has a zero discharge requirement thanks to the lawsuit won by Three Rivers Waterkeeper and Penn Environment. Photo credit: Three Rivers Waterkeeper.

Landmark Legal Settlement in Pennsylvania Will Help Prevent Plastic Pellet Pollution

Victory! Styropek, a plastic production facility located in Monaca, Pennsylvania, U.S. has agreed to pay $2.6 million dollars to remediate plastic pollution in the Ohio River watershed after being sued by local #BreakFreeFromPlastic Member Three Rivers Waterkeeper in collaboration with Penn Environment.

What makes the settlement particularly special is the “zero discharge mandate” that requires Styropek to install state-of-the-art technology to detect the release of any plastic pellets from its facility, and which charges a fee to Styropek for each pellet released into the local waterways. The only other facility in the world with this type of mandate is the Formosa Plastics plant that fellow BFFP changemaker Diane Wilson suc

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Supermarkets’ Role in the Plastic Pollution Crisis According to BFFP Study

Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, released a new report titled: “Supermarket Audits: Stores’ Untapped Potential in Fighting Plastic Pollution”, which is said to be the first-ever global snapshot of the retail sector’s business practices in stores, focusing on their pivotal role in the global plastic pollution crisis. The report says that stores are performing poorly in adopting business practices that reduce plastic pollution.

From August 28 to November 15, 2024, 496 individual audits of 247 retailers in 27 countries were conducted by volunteers from BFFP member organisations (including Nigeria’s Pan African Vision for the Environment – PAVE), as part of the supermarket audits.

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