The NCAA will honor eight community leaders as 2022 Legacy Award recipients for their outreach, local activism and commitment to inclusive excellence in Minneapolis
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Seven of the 10 worst polluters The Coca-Cola Company; PepsiCo; Nestlé; Unilever; Mondelez International; Mars, Inc.; and Colgate-Palmolive signed the Ellen MacArthur Foundation s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment in October 2018, which requires them to eliminate all unnecessary plastic while reusing or recycling plastic items in a circular system and create more sustainable substitutes.
However, the foundation reported that its signatories have only reduced its use of virgin plastic by 0.1 percent from 2018 to 2019. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola increased the amount of plastic it uses.
Break Free From Plastic states that these multinational corporations are pumping out so much of single-use plastics that plastic production could double by 2030 and triple by 2050. Such an increase would have a devastating impact on human health, ecological systems, and climate change.