By 2025, more than 12 billion tonnes of plastic had been produced globally. Plastic pollution is not gender neutral. At oil and gas extraction sites, women and Black, Indigenous and People of Color lose their livelihoods. In factories, workers absorb endocrine-disrupting chemicals. In landfills in the Global South, those with the least power sort toxic waste with bare hands. The plastic crisis runs along the fault lines of gender and global inequality.
Our publication Combatting Global Plastic Pollution presents feminist perspectives for a gender-just approach to the plastic crisis.