Over 90% of plastics have not been recycled. Countries in Southeast Asia are used as dumping ground through the global waste trade. We have to hold brands accountable and demand alternatives to cheap throwaway plastic packaging.
A plastic packaging was seen floating in in Verde Island Passage, the epicenter of global marine biodiversity, in Batangas City, the Philippines. Daily, 163 million sachets produced by the biggest FMCG companies are left polluting the environment in the Philippines. © Noel Guevara / Greenpeace
Mounds of plastic trash are carried away into the shores of Manila Bay by monsoon and Typhoon Yagi (local name Karding). Metro Manila and nearby provinces are being flooded by cheap, disposable plastics, producers are set to increase production by an additional 40% over the next decade. Is it still business as usual for these corporations? © Jilson Tiu / Greenpeace
Greenpeace activists project eleven Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) brands that are producing single use plastic packaging on the Suwung landfill in Bali. Greenpeace report reveal that none of them are planning to break their growing production and marketing of single-use plastics. Many FMCG corporations will attend the Our Oceans Conference in Bali on 29-30 October 2018 to discuss the global plastics pollution crisis. © Jurnasyanto Sukarno / Greenpeace
Environmental activists display placards as they troop to Nestle’s Philippine headquarters in Makati City demanding accountability for its role in abetting the country’s plastic pollution crisis. Nestle was named one of the worst plastic polluters after cleanups and brand audits of plastic waste around the world in 2018. Accompanied by four higantes and a serpent-like plastic monster, the groups delivered a demand letter and “invoice from the Filipino people” outlining the costs of Nestlé’s single-use plastic packaging to human health impacts, environmental pollution, death of wildlife, damage to livelihoods and businesses, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste management challenges. © Basilio H. Sepe / Greenpeace
Corporations like Nestlé and Unilever profit wildly from single-use plastic packaging, while perpetuating the myth of recycling as a solution. But the truth is that recycling could never handle the amount of plastic surrounding our everyday life. It is time for corporations like Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Danone, and Johnson & Johnson to invest in alternative ways to deliver their products to us and to stop using single-use plastic!
What’s the real cause of plastic pollution? Out-of-control production of throwaway plastic by the world’s biggest brands. In fact, they’ve created a Plastic Monster of epic proportions. Join the global movement to expose the menace caused by single-use plastic and packaging. Together, let’s pressure these companies to take concrete, urgent action to slay their Plastic Monster once and for all.
Check out Greenpeace’s Million Acts of Blue toolkit for a plastic-free future to find various ways to take action and stop plastic pollution today!
Corporations like Nestlé and Unilever profit wildly from single-use plastic packaging, while perpetuating the myth of recycling as a solution. But the truth is that recycling could never handle the amount of plastic surrounding our everyday life. It is time for corporations like Nestle, Unilever, Coca-Cola, Danone, and Johnson & Johnson to invest in alternative ways to deliver their products to us and to stop using single-use plastic!
What’s the real cause of plastic pollution? Out-of-control production of throwaway plastic by the world’s biggest brands. In fact, they’ve created a Plastic Monster of epic proportions. Join the global movement to expose the menace caused by single-use plastic and packaging. Together, let’s pressure these companies to take concrete, urgent action to slay their Plastic Monster once and for all.
Check out Greenpeace’s Million Acts of Blue toolkit for a plastic-free future to find various ways to take action and stop plastic pollution today!
