{"id":11021,"date":"2021-10-25T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=11021"},"modified":"2021-10-26T16:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-26T08:37:51","slug":"brand-audit-2021-greenpeace-ph-urges-govt-scrutinize-top-plastic-polluters-false-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/press\/11021\/brand-audit-2021-greenpeace-ph-urges-govt-scrutinize-top-plastic-polluters-false-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Brand Audit 2021: Greenpeace PH urges gov\u2019t to scrutinize top plastic polluters\u2019 false sustainability claims"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>QUEZON CITY, Philippines\u2014Break Free From Plastic\u2019s 2021 global Brand Audit Report revealed that <strong>Coca-Cola Company, Universal Robina Corporation, Nestl\u00e9, Procter &amp; Gamble, and Mondelez International<\/strong> are the top plastic polluters in the country. The report also showed that Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are ranked as the world\u2019s biggest plastic polluters for the 4th consecutive year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>Reacting to the report, Greenpeace Philippines Campaigner Jefferson Chua said:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThis year\u2019s Brand Audit shows that multinational companies have not learned from our experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic as they still continue business-as-usual practices that harm our planet, our environment, and our communities. Although this is not surprising, it is disappointing that Coca-Cola and other companies continue to ignore people\u2019s call for sustainable practices, such as implementing refill and deposit systems and phasing out single-use plastics, even when they have the resources to do so.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt is doubly worrying that these are the same companies that spend millions or billions in an attempt to fool the public through their false claims on \u2018plastic neutrality\u2019 and lip-service commitments on combating the climate crisis. The report sends a clear message that these actions provide little to no benefit in the people\u2019s fight against the plastic crisis. Instead, they\u2019re causing further destruction as they resort to harmful methods, such as waste-to-energy incineration and co-processing. It is critical that we are able to see through these false solutions by listening to and working with the communities who are disproportionately affected by this excessive plastic pollution.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe hope that this report will be reviewed by Philippine lawmakers who are in the process of legislating a single-use plastic ban. It is high time that we look into the full life cycle of plastic products by scrutinizing these companies\u2019 false \u2018plastic neutrality\u2019 claims, facilitate a just transition to reusable and refillable systems, and hold them accountable for causing environmental and health harms to our most vulnerable communities.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgreenpeaceph%2Fposts%2F10158083595896400&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"697\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe>\n\n<p>Global beach cleanups were carried out by more than 11,000 volunteers in 45 countries, including the Philippines, to identify the most common plastic polluters. This year\u2019s Brand Audit found nearly 20,000 Coca-Cola branded products, which represents more pollution than the next two top polluters combined\u2014as has been the case each year since 2019. This suggests that Coca-Cola\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coca-colacompany.com\/sustainable-business\/packaging-sustainability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledge<\/a> to collect one bottle for every one sold is having little impact on the company\u2019s plastic pollution.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>View the full report here: <a href=\"https:\/\/act.gp\/bffpba2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/act.gp\/bffpba2021<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Media contact:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Angeli Cantillana<\/strong><br>Communications Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia \u2013 Philippines&nbsp;<br>angeli.cantillana@greenpeace.org | +63 998 595 9733&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report revealed Coca-Cola, Universal Robina Corporation, Nestl\u00e9, Procter&#038;Gamble and Mondelez are top polluters in PH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11024,"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":"not set","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[8],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-11021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","category-uncategorized","tag-plastic","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11021"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11027,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11021\/revisions\/11027"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11021"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=11021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}