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Four other large companies — Keurig Dr Pepper, Mondelez International, PepsiCo, and Target Corp. — agreed to virgin plastic reductions earlier this year.

Close Authorship That won’t just mean more beached whales with stomachs full of plastic bags; the human consequences will be extreme, too. Healthy ocean ecosystems absorb CO2. A dead ocean has dire consequences for the climate. Plastic already has been found in the air, in the rain, in our bodies and in our food supply. That’s why, in March, the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network, together with WWF and Greenpeace, led the first of four dialogue sessions. One hundred and forty organizations f...

Clearing up the future of the planet 07:00 | 07/06/2021 There could be more plastic than fish in the ocean by 2050, warned the Ellen MacArthur Foundation five years ago. Today, this warning still holds value if business continues as usual. The G20, inter-regional projects like Rethinking Plastics, and groups of scientists have taken the initiative and are trying their utmost to reduce marine litter and protect the future of our ocean as well as ourselves. Plastic...

++++++++++++++++++++++end editors note+++++++++++++++++ $400 billion of planned petrochemical outlay at risk on exaggerated plastics demand Carbon Tracker Initiative, 04 September 2020 Key Quotes “Remove the plastic pillar holding up the future of the oil industry, and the whole narrative of rising oil demand collapses.” Kingsmill Bond, Carbon Tracker Energy Strategist and report lead author. “There are huge benefits in the change from the current linear system to a more circular one. You ca...

New, Free Tool Enables U.S. Companies To Set Ambitious Packaging Strategies To Reduce Plastic Waste Created by The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ, with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ leverages industry best practices and data so companies can build action plans and achieve circularity goals Falls Church, VA /PRNewswire/ - The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ today launched Plastic IQ, a cutting-edge digital tool to help U.S. companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction ...

Getty Images May 06, 2021 FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ today launched Plastic IQ, a cutting-edge digital tool to help U.S. companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction strategies. Created with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ is a forward-looking, data-based planning tool that is aligned with industry best practices. The tool allows companies to prioritize actions to address plastic packaging waste, meet their sustainability ...

Share this article Share this article FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ today launched Plastic IQ, a cutting-edge digital tool to help U.S. companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction strategies. Created with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ is a forward-looking, data-based planning tool that is aligned with industry best practices. The tool allows companies to prioritize actions to address plastic packaging waste, meet th...

Martha McCoy Share: On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake occurred off the coast of Japan, and the tsunami that subsequently struck Japan caused catastrophic damage and loss of life. This natural disaster resulted in approximately 16,000 deaths, hundreds of thousands of evacuees, and vast devastation to buildings and infrastructure. In addition to this human loss and suffering, the tsunami substantially exacerbated a global pollution problem that threatens wildlife, the environment...

65 member organisations from over 50 countries ran innovative and path-breaking campaigns helping consumers to rethink, refuse, reduce, reuse, recycle, repair and replace plastic products in their everyday lives. 19 members held educational workshops with consumers and many more involved consumers directly in practical activities. Why shout about plastic pollution? Plastic is an incredibly adaptable and useful material. But the global production and consumption of plastics is now completely un...

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish. Photo: Wildoceanssa. BUSINESS NEWS - Plastic pollution has become a global crisis and it comes as no surprise that Consumers International (CI), an international consumer organisation, chose “tackling plastic pollution” for International Consumer Rights Day. Although plastic can be a highly useful material, our production and consumption of plastic has become unsustainable. According to the Pew Charitable Tr...