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Activism ... Single Use Plastic
Greenpeace
Urge Albertsons to eliminate single-use plastics in its stores.Turn up the heat on Albertsons! Tell them to end throwaway plastic!
Burgess COMMENTARY
If there was meaningful life cycle accountability, single use plastic would have been eliminated years ago. Imagine if the producers and originators of single use plastic were obliged to pay for the global cleanup ... they would most likely be bust!
Peter Burgess
Keep up the momentum to end single-use plastic
Natalie Nava, Greenpeace
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Time for one of the largest supermarket chains to ditch single-use plastic!
Urge Albertsons to eliminate single-use plastics in its stores.Turn up the heat on Albertsons! Tell them to end throwaway plastic!
TAKE ACTION
The plastic-free movement is gaining momentum! The millions of metric tons of plastic that enter our ocean each year are enough to cover every foot of coastline in the world!1 And that’s just a fraction of the total plastic production — which is set to dramatically increase if we don’t demand change now!
Nearly two and a half million people around the globe have joined Greenpeace in telling corporations to ditch throwaway plastic. Now it's time to focus that energy on supermarkets. Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, has pledged to phase-out single-use plastic bags. By its count, Kroger uses about 6 billion plastic bags a year. Supermarkets like Kroger are hearing the message from concerned citizens like you all over the world to get rid of single-use plastic!
But we’re just getting started! We’re part of a coalition asking Albertsons Companies, another large supermarket chain (and owner of Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, and many other supermarket chains), to commit to phasing-out plastic bags. If Albertsons joins Kroger, we can eliminate an additional 3 billion plastic bags every year!
Sign our joint petition: Urge Albertsons to eliminate single-use plastics in its stores!
Our message to Albertsons is simple, but powerful: plastic bags are used for just a few minutes, but pollute our environment, wildlife, and oceans for a lifetime. Recycling alone will never be enough to solve the plastic pollution crisis — we need Albertsons and other companies to stop forcing plastic onto consumers like you and me. Albertsons can follow Kroger's lead by banning single-use plastic bags, but must go even further and commit to phasing out all single-use plastics in its stores nationwide!
Over the last several months, we have seen a surge of awareness about the impacts of throwaway plastic. Every week there are announcements from airlines, universities, towns, and even whole countries committing to phasing out single-use plastics. Change is possible, and it’s happening before our very eyes. This is why it’s so important to keep the momentum going and call on Albertsons to join the growing trend.
Tell Albertsons to be on the right side of change and demand it joins Kroger in phasing-out plastic bags!
For a plastic-free future,
Natalie Nava
Plastics Project Leader, Greenpeace USA
P.S. Kroger, the nation’s largest supermarket chain, heard your calls and pledged to phase-out plastic bags. Now, we need Albertsons, another large supermarket chain, to get rid of single-use plastic bags. Sign our joint petition: Urge Albertsons to eliminate single-use plastics in its stores!
[1] sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/here-s-how-much-plastic-enters-ocean-each-year
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