{"id":26745,"date":"2019-10-02T08:38:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T12:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=26745"},"modified":"2019-12-20T09:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T14:48:42","slug":"throwing-away-the-future-how-companies-still-have-it-wrong-on-plastic-pollution-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/publication\/26745\/throwing-away-the-future-how-companies-still-have-it-wrong-on-plastic-pollution-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution &#8220;Solutions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/748595bf-report-throwing-away-the-future-false-solutions-plastic-pollution-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26747  alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/efb812ef-falsesolutions-report.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"191\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/efb812ef-falsesolutions-report.png 452w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/efb812ef-falsesolutions-report-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/efb812ef-falsesolutions-report-263x340.png 263w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>We will only see real change when companies like Nestl\u00e9, Unilever, Coca-Cola, and PepsiCo, which profit from single-use models, end their expanding plastic use and invest heavily in systems that prioritize reuse.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nA Greenpeace USA report, <strong>Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution &#8220;Solutions&#8221;<\/strong>, warns against the so-called solutions announced by multinationals to deal with the plastic pollution crisis. These false solutions, including the transition to bioplastics, paper, 100% recyclable packaging, incineration and chemical recycling, risk aggravating this environmental crisis, without questioning the disposable culture, and while diverting attention from the real solutions that should rather favour reuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-canada-stateless\/2019\/11\/748595bf-report-throwing-away-the-future-false-solutions-plastic-pollution-2019.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Download the full report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Greenpeace USA report, Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution \u201cSolutions\u201d, warns against the so-called solutions announced by multinationals to deal with the plastic pollution crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,71],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-26745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-consumption","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26745"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27911,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions\/27911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26745"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=26745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}