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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 from 34 countries representing all the main stakeholders attended the two-day virtual event. The aim ...

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 is used all over the world for thousands of applications in many economic sectors. Its low cost, li...

++++++++++++++++++++++end editor's 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 can have all the functionality of plastics but at half the capital cost, half the amount of feedstock...

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 strategies. Created with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ is a forward-looking, data-based planning ...