Your Organization Can be Part of the Solution

Your organization can be part of the solution

Membership Benefits

Global Access to OPLN’s Activist-to-Industry Activations

With the OPLN membership your organization will gain access and support the plastics crisis stakeholder activations globally. Find out more upcoming activations here.

Capacity Building

As a member you will gain individual access to the most up-to-date digests and certifications designed to inform effective solutions and accelerate collaboration among plastics crisis stakeholders

Plastics Crisis Leadership & Development Paths

OPLN is an impact network facilitating stakeholder collaboration and development in regards to the plastics crisis.

Strategic Global & National Policy Introductions

As a member you can activate collaboration with thought leaders in the network to tackle a key policy challenge relating to the plastics crisis. OPLN will facilitate 1:1 introductions or small groups among our members to drive to deeper understanding.

Stewardship Councils

OPLN engages members with subject matter expertise to contribute to idea generation and program design for the upcoming action forums.

OPLN Ambassador Program

Member organizations are invited to assign two ambassadors to represent their organization for network activations and capacity building and connect with other leaders across the network.

Membership Levels

Capacity Building Access ($10,000 annual)

Active Partner (inquire for information)

Global Plastics Treaty Dialogues

Be part of Global Treaty Dialogues and learn from stakeholders across the stakeholder map on the opportunities and challenges of a Global Plastics Treaty ahead of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-5.2)

Country Level Dialogues

Replicating the Global Plastics Treaty Dialogues model, the Country Dialogues will convene stakeholders at the national level to share perspectives, have productive dialogue and build support for their governments to enter negotiations for a global plastics treaty.

Annual Ocean Plastics Leadership Summit

Join 100+ organizations and their leaders live in an interactive format with drivers to incubate new ideas to address gaps in the ocean plastics solution spectrum.

Expeditions and OPLN Activations

Join OPLN members for first-hand witnessing expeditions focused on the oceans plastics crisis.

Working groups in partnership with the Meridian Institute

Activist-to-industry groups including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in the US, Green Chemistry, and Waste Reclaimers in the Global South.

Access to 1  Dialogue series

Access to All  Dialogue series

Ambassador  Program

Member organizations are invited to assign two ambassadors to represent their organization for network activations and capacity building.

One  Ambassador

Two  Ambassador

Connecting 400+ leading activist-to-industry organizations on behalf of the plastics crisis

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What stakeholders  say about us

“The inclusion of waste reclaimers in the treaty negotiation process is crucial to form an inclusive agreement. OPLN’s efforts to include these voices throughout the dialogues, bringing their perspectives to the forefront of these discussions have informed all stakeholders of waste reclaimers’ vital role in solving the plastic pollution crisis.”

Sonia Dias

Waste Specialist, WIEGO

Media Citations

2021-12-25

The Ocean Plastics Leadership Network, a 90-member group assisted by World Wildlife Fund and Greenpeace is working “not to achieve consensus, but understanding and hopefully new ideas and collaborations.”

2022-04-22

OPLN is one of '10 climate NGOs companies should know' - Their leaders warn against falling into the Paris Agreement’s traps of inefficiency and excluding frontline communities from negotiations.

2021-12-25

2022-04-22

OPLN is one of '10 climate NGOs companies should know' - Their leaders warn against falling into the Paris Agreement’s traps of inefficiency and excluding frontline communities from negotiations.

2022-02-02

Nestlé is participating at the national level and is hoping that more countries will choose to have their own national multi-stakeholder dialogues to facilitate this robust process.

2022-04-22

'OPLN: Experiential Learning for the Win'

2021-06-08

“What we’re trying to do is get all the parties historically fighting each other to understand where everybody sits,” OPLN Founder Ford says. “In a lot of cases, they might be closer than they think.

2020-08-22

The OPLN calls for transparency throughout the supply chains to shine a light on where plastics can be reduced or intercepted before they reach nature.

2020-09-30

'Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration is Key to Solving Ocean Plastics Crisis'

2022-04-18

"By placing leaders in complex and unknown environments, our goal is to translate that awareness into openness and empathy, to break down walls for deeper collaboration and to accelerate industry-wide solutions at scale."