{"id":5231,"date":"2018-10-02T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/?p=5231"},"modified":"2019-11-06T03:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:28:33","slug":"media-announcement-greenpeace-to-reveal-plastic-polluters-investigation-results-in-canada-and-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/5231\/media-announcement-greenpeace-to-reveal-plastic-polluters-investigation-results-in-canada-and-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT: Greenpeace to reveal Plastic Polluters\u2019 investigation results in Canada and worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>October 2nd, 2018 (MONTR\u00c9AL)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> &#8211; On <\/span><b>Tuesday October 9th, 2018<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, Greenpeace Canada will be revealing <\/span><b>the results of the Plastic Polluters Brand Audits <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">conducted <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/4481\/on-world-clean-up-day-greenpeace-canada-launches-coast-to-coast-plastic-polluters-brand-audits\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">three weeks <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">prior on World Clean Up Day. The results will include the top five companies contributing to branded plastic litter, that was collected across five different cleanup-audit locations in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Canadian audit events were part of over 200 audits, taking place on 6 continents, led by Greenpeace and other organizations in the global Break Free From Plastic movement. \u00a0Previously identified plastic polluting multinationals are also recent signatories of the G7<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/press-release\/5101\/g7-ocean-plastic-charter-largest-corporate-polluters-among-of-the-named-signatories\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Plastics Charter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Plastic Polluters Brand Audits take beach cleanups one step further by identifying and categorizing plastic trash by manufacturer, brand and type, connecting plastic producing companies back to pollution in green spaces, along waterways and in our oceans. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>The Canadian results will coincide with the release of the cumulative global results. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>This is the first time Canadian data will be revealed. <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><b>The results will be revealed on October 9th, 2018.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Greenpeace Canada, Head of Oceans &amp; Plastics campaign, Sarah King will be available to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some of the collected branded trash will be used to build an art installation to be unveiled \u00a0later this month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The time and date of the public event will be shared in advance of the event.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">-END-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>For further information or interviews please contact:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Loujain Kurdi, Communications Officer at Greenpeace Canada<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">loujain.kurdi@greenpeace.org; +1 (514) 418-0071<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 2nd, 2018 (MONTR\u00c9AL) &#8211; On Tuesday October 9th, 2018, Greenpeace Canada will be revealing the results of the Plastic Polluters Brand Audits conducted three weeks prior on World Clean&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4588,"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":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,71],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-5231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-live-sustainably","tag-consumption","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5235,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5231\/revisions\/5235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5231"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/canada\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=5231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}