Starbucks offers incentives to customers to use reusable cups for both in-store and to-go consumption.
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Following pressure from a green shareholder activist group, ExxonMobil Chemical Co. agreed March 27 to expand its public reporting around resin pellet spills from its factories.
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At the urging of shareholders, ExxonMobil has agreed to report on plastics spills and management of plastics handling, As You Sow announced Wednesday.
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Oil giant ExxonMobil has avoided having to face a shareholder resolution on plastic pellet pollution after an agreement with investors - though the issue will go to the vote at peer companies like Chevron and Philips 66.
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ExxonMobil has agreed to start reporting plastic pellet spills from its polymer production plants under shareholder pressure to prevent ocean pollution, the shareholder group As You Sow said Wednesday.
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HOUSTON, March 27 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp agreed to start reporting spills of plastic pellets from its chemical plants this year, according to an activist shareholder group that pressed the company on the issue.
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It is ironic that the letter from by Patty Long, interim CEO of the Plastics Industry Association, seeks to invoke ethics.
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Corporations all over the world need to make a choice — are they going to commit to a future in which reliance on fossil fuel-based plastics is only a memory? Or are they going to continue to contribute to the 300 million tons of plastics produced every year, half of which is for single use? Loud investments in R&D to investigate future alternatives to plastics is a weak starting point, more public relations than practical reform. Our planet depends on corporations eliminating single-use plastics from all packaging — now.
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Great Nurdle HuntVolunteers clean the beach in Scotland in an event sponsored by the Great Nurdle Hunt and the environmental group Fidra.
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(Bloomberg Law) -- Starbucks Corp.'s board is pushing back against a coffee-cup recycling proposal from shareholders worried about ocean pollution.
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Plastic is a hot topic in Davos this week and more big-name companies are stepping up commitments to reducing plastic waste -- playing catch-up to other industry leaders.
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In what is being billed as the largest-ever effort of its kind, 28 companies have formed the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, which plans to invest up to $1.5 billion over the next five years on projects to keep plastic trash out of the ocean.
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MIDLAND, MICH — Dow Chemical Co. is forming a global alliance with 30 other companies to focus on reducing plastic waste that ends up in the oceans and the environment.
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With more plastics piling into rivers and oceans, several of the world's biggest plastic chemical manufacturers are joining together in an industry-led effort to curb plastic waste.
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As You Sow has filed resolutions with Chevron Corp., DowDupont Inc., Exxon Mobil Corp. and Phillips 66 asking them to disclose how many nurdles escape their production process each year, and how effectively they’re addressing the issue.
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Environmentalists have identified another threat to the planet. It’s called a nurdle.
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Bottled water is America's most popular beverage, dethroning carbonated soft drinks in 2016. Sales have soared in recent years because of consumer worries about tap water quality and concerns about sugary drinks.
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Faced with relentless campaigning and mounting public concern about plastic pollution, soft drinks companies have no choice but to act to mitigate the environmental impact of their packaging.
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Packaging designer Ryan Gaither believes in the power of cardboard.
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More than 290 companies and groups, including some of the world’s largest consumer goods makers and plastics packaging firms, signed on to a plan Oct. 29 from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to make their packaging much more environmentally friendly.
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