Greenpeace USA Slams Consumer Goods Forum Calls for More Chemical Recycling as Greenwashing 

October 12, 2022

Today, 12 members of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste,  including PepsiCo and Unilever, published a letter of intent addressed to suppliers, regulators, and investors expressing their demand to procure 800,000 tons of chemically recycled material per year by 2030, claiming that they are doing their part to end the plastics crisis. Those volumes are in addition to mechanically recycled materials demand needs.

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Washington DC, (October 12, 2022)– Today, 12 members of The Consumer Goods Forum’s (CGF) Coalition of Action on Plastic Waste,  including PepsiCo and Unilever, published a letter of intent addressed to suppliers, regulators, and investors expressing their demand to procure 800,000 tons of chemically recycled material per year by 2030, claiming that they are doing their part to end the plastics crisis. Those volumes are in addition to mechanically recycled materials demand needs.

In response to the GCF’s letter of Intent, John Hocevar, Oceans Director at Greenpeace USA, said: “At this point, pretty much everyone agrees that plastic pollution is a problem. Unfortunately, corporations are still focusing on approaches that are near the bottom of the waste management hierarchy. Recycling is not going to cut it. So-called chemical recycling is not credible, safe, or environmentally sound and it is just greenwashing to pretend otherwise. If these corporations truly want to stand on the right side of history, this November they would support an ambitious Global Plastics Treaty that will finally end the age of plastic by significantly decreasing production and increasing reuse.”

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Contact: Tanya Brooks, Senior Communications Specialist at Greenpeace USA, (+1) 703-342-9226, [email protected]

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