{"id":19031,"date":"2018-10-23T04:53:17","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T02:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=19031"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:47:52","slug":"global-survey-reveals-fmcg-companies-contribution-to-plastic-pollution-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/press-release\/19031\/global-survey-reveals-fmcg-companies-contribution-to-plastic-pollution-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Global survey reveals FMCG companies\u2019 contribution to plastic pollution crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jakarta, Indonesia &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) corporations<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are a predominant force behind the throwaway economic model driving the plastic pollution crisis, according to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/19007\/a-crisis-of-convenience-the-corporations-behind-the-plastics-pollution-pandemic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">comprehensive sector survey<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Greenpeace International released today. None of the companies surveyed <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have plans to put the brakes on the growing production and marketing of single-use plastics, while the solutions they are exploring will only perpetuate the problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe hoped to identify industry leaders through this process, but instead found that the whole sector has failed to take responsibility for the plastic pollution crisis and is instead trying to maintain the status quo,\u201d said Ahmad Ashov, Global Plastics Project Leader, Greenpeace Indonesia. \u201cThere is a lack of transparency and all current public commitments by these companies allow for an increased use of single-use plastic in the future. That needs to change.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTheir current business model is based on the assumption that ultimately all plastic packaging can, and will, be collected and recycled into new packaging or products.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The four companies that reported the highest sales of single-use plastic products (Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestl\u00e9 and Danone) were also the top four brands identified in a recent global Break Free From Plastic brand audit report following 239 plastic pollution cleanups in 42 countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace\u2019s report, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/19007\/a-crisis-of-convenience-the-corporations-behind-the-plastics-pollution-pandemic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Crisis of Convenience: The corporations behind the plastics pollution pandemic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d, focuses on 11 of the biggest FMCG companies: Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive, Danone, Johnson and Johnson, Kraft Heinz, Mars, Nestl\u00e9, Mondelez, PepsiCo, Procter &amp; Gamble and Unilever. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key findings:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Single-use packaging is the main delivery system used by all of the FMCG companies, with no signs of changing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">None of the surveyed FMCG companies have comprehensive strategies that include commitments to move away from single-use plastic. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most FMCG companies are actually increasing the amount of single-use plastic packaging and waste they produce.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most FMCG companies know or disclose little about the amount of their packaging that is recycled and even less about the destination of their plastic waste after consumption.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite their significant plastic footprint, solutions being explored by businesses are primarily related to addressing recyclability or recycling, not reducing or creating new delivery systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a lack of transparency in the sector and few FMCG companies are willing to disclose important data about their plastic use.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The survey looked to determine the degree to which FMCG commitments, actions and performance are addressing the environmental and social impacts of their plastic packaging and waste. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe sector urgently needs to change its business model and prepare for a world where disposable products and packaging are no longer acceptable,\u201d said Ashov.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The FMCG sector represents one of the largest industries worldwide. Most FMCG companies are growing at rates between 1 \u2013 6% each year.[1] If current trends continue, their use of single-use plastic will increase in parallel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.greenpeace.org\/collection\/27MZIFJWQQ88P\"><b>Photo and video here<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Notes:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1] \u00a0Greenpeace International research for this report assessing the public statements made in 2017\/2018 corporate annual reports of Nestl\u00e9, Procter &amp; Gamble, PepsiCo, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Kraft-Heinz, Mondelez, Colgate Palmolive, Johnson &amp; Johnson, and Danone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">See full report <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA Crisis of Convenience: The corporations behind the plastics pollution pandemic\u201d can be accessed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/19007\/a-crisis-of-convenience-the-corporations-behind-the-plastics-pollution-pandemic\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Break Free From Plastic is a global movement envisioning a future free from plastic pollution. Their brand audit report is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breakfreefromplastic.org\/globalbrandauditreport2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here. <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Contacts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greenpeace International Press Desk, pressdesk.int@greenpeace.org, phone: +31 (0) 20 718 2470 (available 24 hours)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Single-use packaging is the main delivery system used by all of the FMCG companies, with no signs of changing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":11074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_planet4_optimize_post_is_variant":false,"_planet4_optimize_experiment_name":"","_planet4_optimize_variant_name":"","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":[100,70,73],"tags":[67,85],"p4-page-type":[98],"class_list":["post-19031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-about","category-nature","category-social-and-economic-systems","tag-consumption","tag-oceans","p4-page-type-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19031"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19085,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions\/19085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=19031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}