We are watching the fenceline. Together, in solidarity, we will succeed in our collective survival.
- Fenceline Watch
Plastic pellets, also known as nurdles, are typically less than 5 mm in size, and they’re the raw material that’s used to make familiar plastic products like water bottles, grocery bags and polystyrene foam. These tiny plastics are frequently spilled, leaked or dumped into the environment, especially our waterways, during manufacturing and transport. As a result, they frequently wash up on riverbanks, lakeshores and beaches to illustrate the magnitude of the problem, volunteers across America and beyond will be hosting plastic pellet counts and clean up events at their local waterways to help identify where plastic pellet pollution is happening and make the case for action.The International Plastic Pellet Count is a chance for individuals and organizations including Fenceline Watch, across the country and beyond to go to their local waterways, look for plastic pellets and record what they find, so we can all have a better understanding of where this pollution is happening.Bring: Closed toe shoes, Hat, No Shorts/ skirts, Smile :)Light refreshments will be provided.
Fenceline Watch at Global Plastic Treaty INC-4
23 - 29 April 2024, Ottawa, Canada
Watch INC-4 by clicking this link >>>> https://www.unep.org/inc-plastic-pollution/session-4
Definition: INC = Intergovernmental negotiating committee
Purpose: Intergovernmental negotiating committee to develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment Fourth session
Why is Fenceline Watch Involved?
The Houston Ship Channel is home to 618 chemical manufacturing establishments. 99% of plastic is derived from fossil fuels and after extraction in oil fields like the Permian basin in West Texas, the oil, gas, and other fossil fuels then arrive at refining and petrochemical production sites to create feedstocks, polymers, olefins, and pellets for plastics. Oil major states, such as Texas, have no laws to prohibit these facilities from being co-located next to homes, communities, schools, and parks. Every day, people in our communities have to undergo the daily emissions, odors, exposures, and symptoms of toxic exposure. This is a violation of our Human Right to a healthy environment. We are here to pressure decision-makers to include toxic chemical phase-out, public disclosure of toxiss and health effects, and production caps to address the plastic crises truly and ultimately, a legally binding instrument that is protective of human rights, biodiversity and the environment for current and future generations.
“A holistic approach to tackling the existential crisis of plastic is essential. Our communities at the fenceline of plastic production stand in solidarity with those affected from extraction to waste. Our fight for survival is a fight for our future. It is our duty; we refuse to fail.”
- Yvette Arellano, Founder and Director of Fenceline Watch, CIEL Trustee
Interested in learning more ready more at: https://www.fencelinewatch.org/ourwork/toxicplastic
Photo Credit for both: Yvette Arellano Houston (left) Ship Channel aerial view (above) Shell Chemical excessive flare during school release
Fenceline Watch Official Intervention for Global Plastic Treaty INC-2 & INC-3
Learn more about our work with the Global Plastic Treaty process.
We will establish a counterbalance to an industry that has leveraged systemic inequities to skirt environmental oversight, expand, and harm our most vulnerable.
Submit a complaint to (TCEQ)Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
Need to file a complaint with the TCEQ on an odor in your community. Follow the link below or click the blue button below. If you are told to call the City of Houston, remember you have a right to have your complaint documented with TCEQ.
https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/compliance/monops/complaints/complaints.html
¿Necesita presentar una queja ante la TCEQ sobre un olor en su comunidad? Siga el enlace a continuación o haga clic en el botón azul. Si le indican que llame a la Ciudad de Houston, recuerde que tiene derecho a que su queja se documente ante la TCEQ.
https://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/compliance/monops/complaints/complaints.html
Submitir una queja ante la Comisión de Calidad Ambiental de Texas (TCEQ)
Who We AreAs people living in the gulf coast surrounded by fossil fuel infrastructure, we rise in response to the rapid oil and gas expansion in the midst of the global climate crisis. Fenceline Watch is dedicated to the eradication of toxic multigenerational harm on communities living along the fenceline of industry. 
We strive toward a future not dependent on extraction and support opportunities for healthy, safe and productive lives.
We work in the spirit of cooperation, intersectionality and partnership fighting toward equitably meeting the developmental and environmental needs of future generations.
Together we will succeed in a movement for our collective survival.