Subject: BFFP Newsletter 🌍📰: Join the 2026 Supermarket Audit, plus other stories

Ever felt frustrated by how much plastic you end up with after a trip to the supermarket? Join us for a supermarket audit ...

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May 14, 2026

 
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Join the 2026 Supermarket Audit!

Ever felt frustrated by how much plastic you end up with after a trip to the supermarket? Join us for a supermarket audit so we can collectively demand change!


Supermarkets are key players in the plastic pollution lifecycle. Supermarkets have a huge opportunity to help reduce plastic pollution but currently they have largely avoided responsibility for their role in the crisis.


By surveying how they are either increasing plastic pollution or helping reduce it, we can see what best practices exist, and what practices need to become things of the past.


 
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Members and Allies Push Back as Corporations Move to Reopen EU Packaging Rules

For people across Europe, single-use packaging is part of daily life, and so are the growing impacts of plastic waste and harmful chemicals linked to it. As long-awaited EU laws to cut packaging waste are set to begin, food and beverage companies have renewed efforts to delay implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, pushing for changes to the law that could keep large amounts of single-use packaging on the market and slow the shift to reusable systems. 


In response, a broad alliance of Break Free From Plastic members, impacted communities, universities and businesses have called on EU leaders to hold the line and move forward with the regulation as agreed, warning that reopening the deal would weaken environmental protection, and stall Europe’s shift away from throwaway packaging.


Read Our Response

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Photo credits: Miguel Louie de Guzman / Greenpeace

Greenpeace Activists Detained Amid Calls at ASEAN Summit to End the Plastic Crisis and Fossil Fuel Dependence 

During the ASEAN Summit in Cebu, Philippines, Greenpeace activists urging leaders to address the climate and plastic crises faced detention and charges, while leaders discussed sustainability and regional resilience.​


This incident underscores the growing disconnect between government rhetoric and the realities faced by Southeast Asian communities, who continue to bear the impacts of fossil fuel expansion, plastic pollution, and worsening climate disasters. Greenpeace is calling for charges against the activists to be dropped and for ASEAN governments to respect and protect the rights to free expression and peaceful protest.


Real climate leadership entails confronting the corporations and systems driving these crises, not criminalizing those demanding accountability and urgent action.


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Coming together across borders to strengthen zero waste strategies and build a future beyond false solutions.

Brazil's Instituto Pólis and the Global Fight Against Plastic Pollution

 

As BFFP marks a decade of collective action, we're spotlighting Instituto Pólis, where our work in Latin America first took root.


For over 38 years, Instituto Pólis has been working at the intersection of urban, social, and environmental justice in Brazil. In 2018, the organization launched a project with BFFP in Santos, Latin America's largest port city, that brought together 13 ocean activist organizations to tackle plastic pollution at its source.


"If we keep cleaning up without changing the system, this will never end," says Elisabeth Grimberg of the Pólis Institute. "We had to go further — reduce plastic production and put pressure on those who produce it."


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Text image announcing the CEJAD-ICLD Conference 2026 on sustainable waste governance, scheduled for May 4-6 in Nairobi, Kenya. Includes logos of Centre for Environment Justice and Development and Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy.

Help Us Reimagine How We Work Together! 

 

BFFP is rethinking how we can work together better to achieve our vision of a plastic pollution-free future. If you signed up on the BFFP website as an associate member organization or as a small to medium-sized business, we want to hear from you! We would greatly appreciate it if you could take 15 minutes to respond to one of the surveys below according to your classification.

Associate Members
Small Businesses

Digital Media Hub: Resources Exclusively Available for BFFP Members

The Digital Media Hub is a one-stop space for digital campaign resources. Inside, you’ll find social media templates, graphics, and the BFFP style guide.

This page is password-protected and exclusive to BFFP members only. Use hJ8*yDe as the password. Please do not share the link or password with anyone outside the movement. Access it here.

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