Plastic is arguably our biggest environmental challenge worldwide. Not only is it manufactured directly from fossil fuels, and said fossil fuels could use up to 13% of our remaining carbon budget by 2050, but it does not biodegrade. It can take around 500 years for plastic to decompose, and even then, its particles remain on Earth forever.

It has already wreaked unspeakable horrors upon this Earth. Just do a quick search of "The Great Pacific Garbage Patch", and you'll already be affected. Animals are consuming microscopic particles of it and are being poisoned, and we are as well.

Only 5-9% of plastics worldwide are actually recycled, and this "recycled" plastic all too often ends up as single-use soft plastic that will end up in landfill, or worse, in the environment.

There should be no argument that plastic is an urgent problem we need to tackle NOW, and make up for our wrongs while we still have time.

But the good news is, your singular signature can make a difference!

WHAT WE ARE DEMANDING:

• Coles Group is one of the largest supermarkets in my home country of Australia. It has a large range of its own food products.
• We are demanding that the group changes the packaging of just one of its most-bought products, the "Durum Wheat Pasta Large Spirals", into a soft bioplastic.
• This will change the scene dramatically. Not only does it mean that "Durum Wheat Pasta Large Spirals"'s packaging is now biodegradable and compostable, and won't spend as long in landfill, or have such a devastating impact on the environment, but it will PAVE THE WAY for FUTURE CHANGES.
• If you sign, we can set precedents for Coles and for other supermarkets, in Australia and worldwide.

Thankyou for reading this. Will you sign, doing your bit to save the environment, and helping US achieve our goal?