One of the greatest problems facing todays current world is pollution. Plastic floods our Earth, harming animals and contributing to waste, as well as taking our natural resources for a single use purpose and destroying our planet.

As a society we are moving in the right direction, cutting down on our single use plastic. But this is not enough. 5 of the largest global corporations, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Unilever and Danone contribute exceptional levels of single use plastic, polluting our planet. 

I would like to include an extract from a Greenpeace article (linked below):

'The equivalent of one truckload of plastic enters the ocean every minute — but where is it all coming from? Up until recently, we weren’t sure. But to solve the plastic pollution crisis, we knew we needed to arm ourselves with the best information possible.

So, together with our partners in the Break Free From Plastic movement, we enlisted the help of 10,000 volunteers across 42 countries to embark on the world’s most ambitious plastic cleanup and brand audit project yet. Nine months, six continents, 239 cleanup events, and more than 187,000 pieces of trash later, we now have the most comprehensive snapshot to date of how corporations are contributing to the global plastic pollution problem.

They are, in order from most to least commonly found in global brand audits:

Coca-Cola
PepsiCo
Nestlé
Danone
Mondelez International
Procter & Gamble
Unilever
Perfetti van Melle
Mars Incorporated
Colgate-Palmolive                                                                                                       

And that’s just the top ten out of hundreds of multinational brands contributing to plastic pollution across the globe.'

I support those that actively seek individual change, but we need to stem the problem of single use plastic at the start. These 5 corporations should be trailblazers, making a shift in global ideology that single use plastic is not an option with todays current crisis'. We need action and we need it now. These companies have a global responsibility. We are the consumer and we need to send a message that what they are doing is morally wrong.

They need to invest in other alternatives to reduce single use plastic. 

They need to introduce recycling schemes, such as the use of glass bottles instead of plastic which are returned and recycled. This already happens in a range of countries, such as Mozambique for example. It works, If Coca-Cola can do this in Mozambique why can't they implement it globally?

We need to send this message that as consumers we want change. We NEED change, to work with major corporations to allow the world to flourish in an environment where single use plastic is eliminated or heavily reduced. We don't need empty promises but action. We need that action now.

Please sign the petition and if you would like to contact these companies below with why you want to eradicate single use plastic below. We need to make ourselves heard.

Unilever - Use this contact form; https://www.unilever.com/contact/contact-form/

Coca-Cola - https://www.coca-colacompany.com/contact-us

Nestle - https://www.speakupfeedback.eu/web/A2VY73

Pepsi-Co - http://www.pepsico.co.uk/home/Contact

Danone - https://www.danone.com/media/contact.html

Article: https://www.greenpeace.org/international/story/18876/these-10-companies-are-flooding-the-planet-with-throwaway-plastic/