Hormel Foods will cut packaging use by 10 million pounds by 2030, form a new industry working group to advance circular packaging policy and produce a report detailing opportunities for the company to take additional circularity action by later this year. In response, As You Sow agreed to withdraw its shareholder proposal with the company.
Read MoreAs You Sow congratulates Dunkin’ Brands today for choosing a replacement material for its polystyrene foam beverage cups and setting a 2020 date to phase them out. This action will remove nearly 1 billion foam cups from the waste stream annually. Coupled with McDonald’s recent commitment to phase out foam materials globally, these two actions could significantly reduce the amount of single use cups that end up as littered waste on land and in waterways.
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