GAIA’s 2025 U.S. EJ Action Microfunds Grant is now open! $2,500 grants for frontline-led U.S. orgs working on:

♻️ Zero waste
🔥 Incineration & “chemical recycling”
🛢️ Plastics & methane
🔋 Battery harms

📌Apply by Sept 8: www.no-burn.org/wp-content/u...

GAIA condemns the U.S. government’s decision to incinerate nearly $10 million worth of vital reproductive health supplies just weeks after destroying 500 tons of emergency food aid, wasting life-saving resources, and violating fundamental human rights.

👉Read more: www.no-burn.org/gaia-stateme...

GAIA and allies visited RePurpose Energy to see how used EV batteries can get a second life. 🔋⚡

Most EV batteries still have 70–80% of their capacity when retired, but repurposing can extend their lifespan by 5-13 years.

Watch the video: youtu.be/EfkORlPUZtg?...

MUST-READ op-ed by Dr. Alexa White of @hiphopcaucus.bsky.social on the chemical + plastics industry's shameless targeting of NY's Black Puerto Rican Hispanic & Asian Legislative Caucus to erode their support for a key environmental justice bill, the Packaging Reduction & Recycling Infrastructure Act

GAIA stands in unwavering solidarity with Greenpeace against this outrageous $660M SLAPP verdict—an attack on free speech, Indigenous sovereignty, and environmental defenders. #WeWillNotBeSilenced

Read our statement. 👇 www.no-burn.org/gaia-stands-...

#ThisIsZeroWaste: What Zero Waste Solutions Look Like for Fashion & Beyond

📅 Thurs. March 27
🕘 9AM EST

Join us for a LinkedIn Live where we will:
✅ Discuss fast fashion &waste colonialism
✅ Share best practices to prevent textile waste
✅ Explore how fashion fits into the larger #zerowaste movement

Together, we only grow stronger!! #WeWillNotBeSilenced by Big Oil Bullies. Check our LINK IN BIO for multiple ways to support and take action!

BIG NEWS: A jury has reached a verdict that Greenpeace entities are liable for over $660 million in damages in our trial against Big Oil company Energy Transfer.

This is far from over. We’re going to appeal. And we’re prepared to fight this all the way to victory.

Project 2025 author Scott Mason now head of @EPAregion6 overseeing TX LA NM OK&AR states disproportionately impacted by oil, gas & petchem w/ high concentration of vulnerable communities. Mason pushed for closure of all #EnvironmentalJustice programs

bit.ly/4gCj95w

READ & REPOST: @EPA EJScreen has been taken offline🚨 EJSreen a vital database enables our community to access health &demographic info & track environmental exposures. This move by admin takes information away from the people & puts our safety at risk #EnvironmentalJustice

Standing in solidarity with @beyondplastics.bsky.social as they demand real action for East Palestine. Two years after the toxic train derailment, the community still needs an emergency declaration, healthcare, and relocation assistance. www.beyondplastics.org/press-releas...

A new study shows that microplastics are making their way into human brains — with potentially dangerous effects on people’s health and mental acuity. #NewYork needs to pass the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act now.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

“National laboratories should not be aiding and abetting the deceptive practices of the petrochemical industry.” – Neil Tangri, research and policy director, GAIA www.exxonknews.org/p/plastics-a...

Letters to the Editor: "Waste to energy argument doesn’t hold up" by Monique Fitzgerald, Brookhaven Landfill Action and Remediation Group (BLARG) riverheadnewsreview.timesreview.com/2025/01/1238... #NoBurn

Organizers Fight the Greenwashing of Plastic Pollution With Grassroots Power truthout.org/articles/org...

🌏 Progress on the #GlobalPlasticsTreaty is (slowly) advancing and we're getting closer to an agreement for reducing plastic pollution.

The framing of the conversations now includes the whole life cycle of plastics - a great victory!

Read the blog post by ZWE's Founder @jmsimonl.bsky.social👇

✅ #INC5 Day 7 of 7: December 1
Our statement for the end of the fifth intergovernmental negotiating committee session for a #PlasticsTreaty tonight in Busan, South Korea.

READ in full⤵️
no-burn.org/plastics-tre...

#lessplasticmorelife #breakfreefromplastic