July 2025

Did you know? In the US alone, an estimated 42 million metric tons of plastic waste is produced annually—only 8.7% of which is recycled. Today, approximately one trillion disposable food and beverage packaging items are used each year in the US, comprising 67% of litter found...

When we started FreeportCAN almost five years ago now, we were on the rising edge of a wave of climate alarm that rose after the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made clear that we had to begin lowering our emissions immediately or we...