Change Plastic for Good

Change Plastic for Good We are creating a movement of action towards sustainable plastics. The butterfly represents a change....Change Plastic for Good!

There are too many lies being told to consumers about what is TRULY SUSTAINABLE and we are here to tell you the truth.

Today we launched the best tool to display your company’s sustainability vision. 🦋 Change Plastic for Good®️ has created...
09/13/2024

Today we launched the best tool to display your company’s sustainability vision. 🦋
Change Plastic for Good®️ has created a unique brand story that stands for truth with no room for greenwashing, represented by our little butterfly. There is a serious fog in the world of sustainability and the butterfly is a lighthouse in the fog. Brands that display this code have the ability to share their collaboration with us as well as talk about their own work in sustainability.

As consumers, we all need to know what is really good for the planet and that’s what we offer. Unbiased science based solutions to plastic waste, converting it into clean energy and compost, enriching the soil. We are sick and tired of profiteers in this space, making money by catering to cultural mob demands. These demands are usually more harmful. We call it out and offer a better way forward. Plastic is amazing. We just Change Plastic for Good!

Learn more at ChangePlasticforGood.com

This is something we have been working hard on for a long time and it’s going to disrupt the sustainability world. Intro...
05/30/2022

This is something we have been working hard on for a long time and it’s going to disrupt the sustainability world. Introducing the gold standard in sustainability 👏.
Greenwashers look out! This logo will not be easy to get. It represents plastic products that are made more sustainable, but oh so much more. Companies that want this mark will have to clean up our oceans, redesign their packaging and products to use less materials, use recycled content, have a reuse or collection plan in place, support new eco R&D and if that wasn’t enough….they have to LOVE DOING IT!
Don’t worry.. we make it painless and affordable and it will add great value to your products and give you a great story.

Inside a Nike store in Hamburg there is a box where customers can toss in old sneakers so they can be turned into ground...
01/19/2022

Inside a Nike store in Hamburg there is a box where customers can toss in old sneakers so they can be turned into ground-up materials used to pave basketball courts or make new soles for shoes. A German investigative team decided to find out what happened to an old pair of shoes added to the box. By adding a GPS tracker, they followed the trucks and discovered the shoes were being sent to a facility for downcycling but when they walked in they saw brand new shoes being shredded. So they did it again, this time putting a tracker in a newly bought pair of shoes they returned, unused. They ended up at the same facility. No recycling whatsoever, just shredding them immediately, violating a recently enacted German law.
A company that takes resources like this and scraps them so quickly while claiming to be concerned about the environment, is reprehensible. Maybe this is why CorpWatch gave Nike a ‘greenwash’ award in 1998 after the numerous human rights lawsuits that made Nike famous. This is why they hit #4 on our list.

With a market $10 billion and growing, the problems associated with this waste is growing too. And recycling is not as e...
01/13/2022

With a market $10 billion and growing, the problems associated with this waste is growing too. And recycling is not as easy as most people think. Large scale recyclers have equipment that sorts bottles and containers but these are designed to accept your standard sized bottles….not tiny little capsules. Just like bags and bottle caps, these small pieces fall through the sorters and end up landfilled as waste. FYI a LOT of plastic that goes to a recycler gets landfilled due to its size or lack of being accepted because of the kind of plastic it is. (Remember only #1 and #2 are accepted). Something like a Keurig coffee pod is too small and has to be sent to a specialist recycling services instead of local recycling bins.

As a case in point of how the recycling process can go badly wrong. Keurig led Canadian buyers to believe they could recycle their single-use plastic coffee pods by simply breaking open the top, emptying out the coffee, and throwing the empty carcass into recycling bins. Easy right?

Wrong. The capsules weren’t accepted in most Canadian provinces, except for Quebec and British Columbia. And even then the instructions didn’t go far enough. The City of Toronto had to revert 90 tonnes of plastic pods from recycling bins last year because of this kind of capsule carnage.

Keurig were fined $3million and ordered to change the misleading recycling claims on the packaging.

Tip: If you want to do your part for the planet, don’t use coffee pods. Use a French press or an espresso machine. You’ll get wayyyy better coffee anyways.

This week and next, we will be featuring the top 5 greenwashers. We would love to know if any companies you think should...
01/12/2022

This week and next, we will be featuring the top 5 greenwashers. We would love to know if any companies you think should make the list. Let’s us know 👇

No company attached to this biodegradable bag. Who do we hold accountable for this claim??
01/11/2022

No company attached to this biodegradable bag. Who do we hold accountable for this claim??

A few months ago we started a side project on our LinkedIn channel called ‘Thunderforce’ which called out companies that...
01/10/2022

A few months ago we started a side project on our LinkedIn channel called ‘Thunderforce’ which called out companies that blatantly misled their own customers on the sustainability of their products. We started with a popular phone case company that said their phone cases were ‘made from plants, plastic free’ and ‘compostable’, all of which were not true or at the very least, misleading.

We dove deep into researching the company in question and then posted a series of videos sharing our findings. After much discussion with the company to change their claims, we ended up reporting them to the federal trade commission for false and misleading claims. We hoped there would be a desire on their end to do the right thing but there was nothing more than justification for what they were saying. We did this to open the consumers eyes to what shenanigans brands will pull to bring in more young customers, and we’re going to do this again and again and exposing these brands until they start telling us the truth.

All this month we will be posting about the brands we found to be the most misleading and highlighting how these products are actually causing more harm than good. Then we want to offer them the chance to do the right thing. We have an amazing community of sustainability heroes (most of them are Thunderforce members and want to see changes:) that these brands could engage with to make their products better and still be competitive on the global market. The question is, will they do the right thing? Let’s find out!

Do you suspect any companies products look too good to be true? Let us know 👇. It’s time to hold these brands accountable!

Serious props for Polymers 👏. Here is why 👇 We’ve all heard of polymers in relation to plastic but what does our skin ha...
01/06/2022

Serious props for Polymers 👏. Here is why 👇

We’ve all heard of polymers in relation to plastic but what does our skin have to do with plastic? Well, all plastics are polymers, but not all polymers are plastics. Polymers occur in nature and much of the natural world is made up of these unique structures, including your skin.

Poly" means many, and "Mers" means parts. Synthetic Polymers like plastics are made of many single units called monomers, and these form many of the products we depend on today.
- Paint
- adhesives
- clothing
- packaging
- furniture
- automobiles
- airplanes
- windmill blades (ironic right?)

Even the food we eat is made up of sugar, carbohydrates, protein, and fats that are all natural polymers.

- Trees
- skin
- muscles
- hair
- fingernails
- organs
- wool
- leather
- Silk

These are all made up of millions of protein polymers. The strongest fiber in the world, spider silk, is a natural protein polymer. No plastic needed!
Without Polymers there would be no natural world and our own bodies wouldn’t exist. And without synthetic polymers, we would all still be living like cavemen. Props to polymers !

This is some truth here. Ask Albert Einstein 🧐
01/05/2022

This is some truth here. Ask Albert Einstein 🧐

I bought this swimsuit for my wife 9 months ago and it is already see-through 😩. Look at how much material is lost! I’ll...
01/04/2022

I bought this swimsuit for my wife 9 months ago and it is already see-through 😩. Look at how much material is lost! I’ll give it to for having great customer service. A swimsuit should never wear out this quickly from just pool swimming but it just goes to show how much of our clothing is shed in water. The number one culprit for ocean microplastics is clothing in washing machines. It’s a tough problem to tackle since yarns are mostly synthetic and synthetic yarn is generally much better for the planet than natural fibers (believe it or not it’s true with the exception of h**p. H**p rules). Biotechnologies like BDP® may be the only solution to this problem. By blending it into the fabric, microfibers that do end up in the ocean can be consumed by bacteria. But let’s make sure we do our part and wash our clothes less. A lot of clothes don’t need a wash every day, so do your part and get stinky! (Kidding).

Have a read of Mario’s full quote on our LinkedIn page. It is in response to an article that points out the negatives of...
01/04/2022

Have a read of Mario’s full quote on our LinkedIn page. It is in response to an article that points out the negatives of plastic. Mario adds what is missing which is, in our opinion, the respect plastics deserve. It’s not all doom and gloom like culture and media portrays.

Is anyone else getting ticked off with the virtue signaling changes going on in packaging today? The first job of packag...
01/03/2022

Is anyone else getting ticked off with the virtue signaling changes going on in packaging today? The first job of packaging is to keep your valuable goods from being ruined. Paper bags don’t do that!!! We are regressing and we are trying to un-invent things that are awesome like plastic bags and straws and make the frustratingly worse. I saw a paper bag inside a plastic bag the other day. That’s because plastic is awesome and does the job and paper does not.

Believe it or not there is a way to keep plastic and ditch paper and have a better ecological footprint. Remember it’s people who litter and we are the irresponsible ones. Don’t blame awesome innovations for the damage they do because they are improperly disposed of.

Paper is worse, plastic wins LCAs and in the end, we all want a product that performs its function. This bag did not. Yes I know it’s meant to hold clothes and not the extra snacks we jammed in there but this is also real life and we all use our bags for other items when we shop. The grocery plastic bag was designed to be stuffed in your pocket and reused. Give me this option! It’s being taken away by law now. We’re going backwards.

contact us if you want to improve the sustainability of your packaging and keep your plastic bags.
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