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A resolution asking grocery chain Kroger Co. to come up with a plan to reduce its plastic packaging nearly passed at the company s annual meeting June 24, with 45 percent of shareholders voting in favor.
Green investment group As You Sow said in a June 29 statement that it urged Kroger, the largest U.S. grocery chain by revenue, to prepare a report by December estimating how much of its plastic packaging is released to the environment from production, disposal and recycling.
The AYS resolution also asked shareholders to require Kroger management to disclose detailed strategies to reduce plastic in packaging.
Similar resolutions at other major companies in recent months resulted in those firms agreeing to sizable cutbacks in the amount of virgin plastic they use. Target Corp. and Keurig Dr Pepper, for example, both announced this year that they have a target of 20 percent reduction in the use of virgin plastic in packaging by 2025, prompting the green shareholder groups to
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Getting back a desired ‘widely recyclable label for polypropylene
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An industry coalition working to turn around falling access to polypropylene packaging recycling in curbside programs believes its early investments are paying off and it s making meaningful progress toward its goals.
But a group that will assess one of those key goals the ability to label PP packaging like yogurt cups, margarine tubs and Keurig coffee pods as widely recyclable in the United States cautions that measuring progress is complex.
The Polypropylene Recycling Coalition formed last year with $35 million from major consumer brands and plastics firms to funnel grants to local materials recovery facilities to get more Americans access to recycling PP.