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STATEMENT: Ikea commits to phase out single-use plastics by 2020
June 8, 2018 (Washington, DC) – Ikea announced today that it will remove all single-use plastic products from its 363 stores globally and from customer and co-worker restaurants in its…
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PRESS RELEASE: Companies joining new Ellen MacArthur Foundation plastics leadership coalition must prioritize transparency and reduction
June 11, 2018 (VANCOUVER) – Today, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation announced the development of a new coalition on plastic pollution, urging the world’s largest companies to join and show leadership…
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STATEMENT: Trudeau’s announcement of G7 Ocean Plastics Charter indicates the agreement will fail to adequately address plastic pollution crisis
G7 Summit June 9, 2018 (QUÉBEC CITY) – Following Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Chair’s Press Conference about the final communique of the 2018 G7 Summit and his announcement of the…
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PRESS RELEASE: G7 Summit: Environmental groups call on Minister McKenna to use law, crack down on plastic pollution
June 7, 2018 (OTTAWA) – On the eve of the G7 Summit meeting in Charlevoix, Quebec, environmental groups are calling on Canada’s Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna…
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MEDIA ADVISORY: G7 Summit : Environmental organizations will be in Quebec City
At the International Media Center June 7, 2018 (QUÉBEC City) – Environmental Defence Canada, Équiterre, Climate Action Network Canada and Greenpeace Canada will be available for interviews at the G7…
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Plastic pollution reaches the Antarctic
The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise was in the Antarctic at the beginning of 2018 It’s not what we wanted to find. When Greenpeace set sail to the Antarctic earlier this…
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PRESS RELEASE: Greenpeace sends larger-than-life message to leaders one day before G7 Summit: ‘Recycling won’t cut it: Ban single-use plastics’
June 7, 2018 (OTTAWA) – One day before the G7 Summit starts in Charlevoix (Québec), Greenpeace Canada sends a hard-to-miss message to its seven leaders by deploying a giant plastic-bag…
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PRESS RELEASE: Activists call on G7 and corporations to end plastic pollution crisis
On World Environment Day June 5, 2018 (TORONTO) – New data collected through cleanups and brand audits confirms that some of the world’s largest corporations — including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestlé,…
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STATEMENT: Canada must use G7 presidency to tackle plastic pollution at the source
May 11, 2018 (TORONTO) – In response to Minister McKenna’s recent comments comparing the upcoming G7 plastics charter to the Paris Climate Agreement, Greenpeace Canada plastics campaigner, Farrah Khan, said:…
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Greenpeace’s new ‘open’ project & your plastic-free future toolkit!
Earth Day 2018’s theme is to End Plastic Pollution, and Greenpeace Canada is rising to the challenge with the launch of our brand new project that’s a bit different from…