Georgia PIRG

04/22/2023

This Earth Day, help put our planet over plastic by donating to keep our work going strong.

We're doubling down on our campaigns to move Georgia beyond plastic, and to hold plastic producers accountable for the pollution their products become.

04/19/2023

As we approach Earth Day, many of us are thinking about how we can make a positive impact for our planet.

Will you take action right now for a future with less waste and pollution by calling on Costco to stop senselessly supersizing packaging waste?

Our favorite buy-in-bulk stores shouldn't send us home with a mountain of unnecessary packaging.

12/31/2022

Our country and our planet have a plastic waste problem. PIRG is working to fix that, but we can't do it without your help.

Make your year-end gift now to help keep our work going strong in the year ahead.

The United States is the world's largest plastic polluter: Every year, we produce a staggering 42 million metric tons of plastic waste. PIRG is working to fix that -- and we need your help.

12/29/2022

As the largest retailer in the world, Amazon has the power to not only stop its plastic pollution, but spur the entire industry to do the same.

Tell Amazon: Stop using wasteful single-use plastic packaging.

Our deliveries don't need to be wrapped in multiple layers of throwaway single-use plastic.

11/29/2022

Every single year, the United States generates an unbelievable 42 million metric tons of plastic waste. We’re the world’s single biggest plastic polluter.

PIRG is working to change that. This Giving Tuesday, help fuel our work to move beyond plastic, and give the gift of a plastic-free world to future generations.

Every single year, the United States generates an unbelievable 42 million metric tons of plastic waste. PIRG is working to change that.

11/28/2022

Grocery store shelves are stocked with piles of wasteful plastic, but Whole Foods can be a leader in moving the industry in a more sustainable direction.

Join us in telling Whole Foods: Get wasteful plastic off of store shelves.

If we're going to turn the tide on plastic waste, we need prominent supermarket chains such as Whole Foods to play a major role.

09/30/2022

Today’s the last day of our September Drive. We’re taking on the plastic waste crisis at the local, state, federal and corporate levels -- but we can’t do it alone

Donate to help us move beyond plastic -- and if you give before midnight, generous donors will match your gift, doubling your impact up to $10,000 nationwide.

We're building momentum to move Georgia beyond plastic and hold plastic producers responsible for the waste they create -- but we can't do it without your help.

09/26/2022

Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our environment and threaten public health for hundreds of years.

Will you join us in calling on Costco to move beyond plastic?

Costco gives its customers the opportunity to buy neary anything...but at what cost?

06/30/2022

As a citizen-funded organization, PIRG relies on the support of people like you who know that common sense solutions exist to problems that we should no longer tolerate.

To help power this crucial work, generous donors will match your gift until midnight tonight, doubling your impact up to $10,000 nationwide.

Are you with us?

As a citizen-funded organization, Georgia PIRG doesn't take donations from corporations or special interest groups.

06/28/2022

Will you help push single-use plastics out of the beverage industry? Tell Keurig Dr Pepper to remove these plastics from its products and stop adding to the plastic waste crisis.

Tell Keurig Dr Pepper: Take the plastic packaging out of your products and make K-Cups plastic-free.

04/22/2022

This Earth Day, we’re doubling down on our campaigns to move beyond plastic, and to hold plastic producers accountable for the pollution their products are designed to become.

PIRG has decades of experience standing up for the public interest, and we know that we have what it takes to tackle a challenge as big as the plastic waste crisis.

That’s why generous donors will match your Earth Day gift, dollar for dollar, up to $10,000 nationwide -- but only until midnight. Donate now.

https://georgiapirg.webaction.org/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=74266

04/20/2022

Each year, a whopping 70 million pounds of waste gets left behind in our country’s parks for the National Park Service to manage, and single-use plastics are a big part of that problem.

This week is both Earth Day and National Parks Week. So we’re calling on U.S. senators to take action and ban single-use plastics in national parks. Add your name today.

What could ruin a stroll through one of our country's beautiful national parks? How about the sight of single-use plastic litter?