The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, and Nestlé come in as the world’s top plastic polluters for five years running, according to Break Free From Plastic’s latest global brand audit report. The 2022 Brand Audit analyzes five years' worth of citizen science trash-collection data, exposing how corporate voluntary commitments are not effectively reducing these companies’ devastating environmental impacts. In response, activists around the world are calling for a Global Plastics Treaty that can provide legally-binding mechanisms and enforcement policies to effectively reduce the amount of plastic both produced and used by corporations.
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.
The government of Egypt announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with Coca-Cola, introducing the company as a sponsor for the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) to be held in Sharm El-Sheikh from 6 to 18 November.
Yesterday, Greenpeace USA activists unfurled a banner during a Padres home game at Petco Park Stadium in San Diego pointing to Bumble Bee’s headquarters that reads “Bumble Bee: #GoodforWho?” They called on Bumble Bee to end the suspected human rights abuse and illegal fishing in its supply chain.
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has again included Taiwan-caught fish in its List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. Taiwan was first listed in the DOL's report in 2020 after several investigations and reports by Greenpeace East Asia, Greenpeace South East Asia, and other civil society monitoring organizations confirmed the existence of systemic forced labor in the Taiwanese fishing industry. The Taiwanese government has taken incremental steps to address the issue, which have so far failed to disrupt the practice.
A group of businesses, convened by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Wide Fund for Nature, launched the Business Coalition for a Global Plastics Treaty today. The Coalition has called for the “development of an ambitious and effective global treaty to end plastic pollution.” While we welcome some of the perspectives shared by the Business Coalition, it is clearly not enough. With the upcoming negotiation of the Global Plastics Treaty this November, businesses must align themselves on the right side of history and support an ambitious plastics agreement that will finally end the age of plastic.
Ocean Justice would harness a power shift that advances their full participation and leadership in ocean decision-making and secure their equal access to healthy and prospering shorelines and oceans.
Indigenous leaders from Brazil and civil society groups alert world leaders about deforestation and escalating violence at the hands of the current government
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