Plastics Reduction Partner: Certify Your Campus
The Plastics Reduction Partner is a certification program for colleges and universities taking action to reduce the purchase and use of plastics on campus.
There are three levels of certification: 
- Bronze (18-48 points): Introductory badge - your college or university is newer to the plastics reduction space, and trying to get the word out about the need for change.
- Silver (49-74 points): Intermediate badge - your college or university is reducing plastics in practice, and your impact is visible campus-wide.
- Green (75-100 points): Advanced level badge - your college or university is institutionally committed, and demonstrating leadership in the plastics reduction space as a true change agent.
All campuses will be required to submit a signed letter of commitment prior to applying for certification.
Plastics Reduction Partner program is eligible for AASHE STARS innovation credits.
National Wildlife Federation is a proud member of the #BreakFreeFromPlastic movement.
Stemming the Tide: Taking Action on Campus Against Plastic Pollution
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New Guide Features: 
> 36 colleges and universities
> Overview of plastic pollution problem including impacts on humans and wildlife
> Easy ways for individuals to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic
> Campus-wide solutions to reduce, reuse and recycle plastic
> Education and awareness campus strategies
> The plastic recycling process
Before you dive into the guide:
> Test your knowledge of how plastic pollution impacts our marine environments.
> Test your knowledge of the materials you purchase and use each day.
Plastic Pollution Impacts on the Environment
Management and disposal of solid waste material, especially plastics, has become one of the most challenging environmental problems of our time. And it is also basically solvable. The entire world has shifted, in the past 30 years, to single-use plastics as a way of eating, drinking, washing and packaging merchandise that goes straight into the waste stream, on to landfills and ultimately into the natural environment – with the accumulated waste lasting for decades and posing a hazard to living creatures including humans. It is clearly a problem for people and for nature and wildlife that is expanding globally including in the U.S.
Plastics of different sizes are being ingested by billions of creatures -- and are killing and/or harming endangered species at sea and on land; it is estimated that ingestion of plastic kills 1 million marine birds and 100,000 marine animals each year. Adults and children are taking in plastics every week through the food they eat and the water they drink with unknown long-term consequences, according to a recent analysis by the World Wildlife Fund.