{"id":63935,"date":"2023-11-28T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=63935"},"modified":"2026-02-26T22:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T21:38:14","slug":"unilever-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/publication\/63935\/unilever-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilever Uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Unilever&#8217;s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it<\/h2>\n\n<p>Unilever is vocal about its desire to conduct business that does \u2018more good for our planet and our society \u2013 not just less harm\u2019. In recent years, it has been visible at conferences around the world, promoting its plan to use \u2018less plastic, better plastic or no plastic\u2019.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-top:max(60%,326px);height:0;width:100%\"><iframe allow=\"clipboard-write\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-modals allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"position:absolute;border:none;width:100%;height:100%;left:0;right:0;top:0;bottom:0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?backgroundColor=%23a3aadf&#038;backgroundColorFullscreen=%23a3aadf&#038;d=unilever-uncovered&#038;hideIssuuLogo=true&#038;hideShareButton=true&#038;u=greenpeaceinternational\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In this report, Greenpeace International investigates the reality behind these soundbites. We expose the blight of Unilever\u2019s single-use sachets on low-income communities and the glaring gap that exists between what the company says it will do, and what it actually does.<\/p>\n\n<p>We conclude by urging Unilever to grasp the opportunity presented by the new UN Global Plastics Treaty. The company must spearhead an industry-wide movement, one that transitions businesses away from single-use plastics and towards the adoption of at-scale reusable packaging systems around the world.<\/p>\n\n<p>Download the report: <\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-international-stateless\/2023\/11\/6cf67ce7-unilever-uncovered.pdf\">Uncovered: Unilever\u2019s complicity in the plastics crisis and its power to solve it<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this report we expose the blight of Unilever\u2019s single-use sachets on low-income communities and the glaring gap that exists between what the company says it will do, and what it actually does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":63936,"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":"Plastic Free Future","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[69,73],"tags":[134],"p4-page-type":[62],"class_list":["post-63935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-energy","category-social-and-economic-systems","tag-plastics","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935","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=63935"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80577,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63935\/revisions\/80577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63935"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=63935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}