VICTORIES: Your impact, in just the last few months

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  • Unilever committed to eliminate 100,000 tons of plastic packaging, the first significant commitment to absolute plastic use reduction

  • Yum! Brands—KFC, Taco Bell, PizzaHut— agreed to phase out foam packaging by 2020

  • Starbucks pledged to cut global packaged waste 50%, shifting from single-use to reusables (when public health and the pandemic permit)

  • Colgate-Palmolive began shipping the world’s first recyclable toothpaste tubes

  • Waste Management and Republic agreed to identify gaps in recycling infrastructure

  • General Mills committed to adopt regenerative agriculture and beg in pesticide reporting

  • Kellogg’s committed to phase out pre-harvest glyphosate use in wheat and oat crops

  • Two resolutions targeting workforce diversity, inclusion, and discrimination earned historically high votes – 79% and 61%

  • Multiple utilities set net-zero greenhouse gas targets

  • Hertz joined the Corporate ElectricVehicle Alliance

AsYouSowSummer 2020