Hold the Plastic
Replacing Plastic food packaging

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Replacing Plastic food packaging

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Plastic food packaging sheds, contaminating our food and beverages.

Plastic food packaging sheds, contaminating our food and beverages. Plastic food packaging sheds, contaminating our food and beverages. Plastic food packaging sheds, contaminating our food and beverages.
Studies have found these plastics throughout the body and links to cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive disorders. Click here to read the research.
"Human brain samples contain an entire spoon's worth of nanoplastics." Is there a "Causal" relationship?" Click here.

replacing plastic food packaging with Plant-Based materials.

Scientific research aims to discover the causal relationship between microplastics and disease.

In recent years, scientists have discovered links between microplastics in our bodies and cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive disorders. Researchers now plan to validate the causal relationship between eating plastic and life-threatening diseases. "Hold the Plastic," and our nonprofit partners will soon present a plan to provide $130 million to fund this two-year research program.  Leave your contact details for updates.

Meet our Founder

Marc Schechtman

Marc has been a classroom teacher since 1975, a father of four, and a veteran of the United States Air Force Reserve. He is leading the "Hold the Plastic" team to replace petroleum-based plastics with plant-based materials for all food packaging. Marc's family has been in the food production, marketing, and distribution industries for three generations.


You can contact Marc at 1.858.866.4958 or marc@holdtheplastic.com.

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