Walmart Inc., the world’s largest company by revenue, agreed today at its sustainability milestone summit to reduce total virgin plastic use by 15% throughout the company’s plastic packaging footprint by 2025 following engagement with As You Sow.
Read MoreToday, As You Sow released its ”Corporate Plastic Pollution Scorecard 2021” analyzing the actions, and inactions, of 50 of the largest U.S. consumer-facing companies to reduce plastic pollution.
Read MoreIn a move to bolster the growing “right to repair” movement intended to extend the life of consumer electronics, As You Sow has filed a shareholder resolution requesting that Microsoft analyze the environmental and social benefits of making its devices more easily repairable through measures such as the public provision of tools, parts, and repair instructions.
Read MoreToday, Target Corp. committed to reduce annual total virgin plastic in its owned brand packaging by 20% by 2025, following up on a previous agreement to set a plastic elimination goal.
Read MoreSteady progress in the fight against plastic pollution was sustained at the annual meeting of Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer, as 35% of shareholders supported a proposal asking the company to reduce the amount of plastics used in its operations.
Read MoreAfter engagement with As You Sow on reducing single use plastic packaging, Walmart Inc., the world’s largest company by revenue and largest U.S. grocery retailer, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic by 2025.
Read MoreFollowing a shareholder proposal filed by As You Sow and Green Century Capital Management°, Target Corporation, a Fortune 50 general merchandise retailer, has agreed to set a virgin plastic elimination goal for its private brand packaging across its fast-moving goods categories.
Read MoreIn a record-high vote on an environmentally oriented shareholder proposal that was opposed by management, a whopping 81.2% of investors at DuPont supported an As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to report on spills of plastic pellets that are released into the environment.
Read MoreIn the highest vote on plastic pellet pollution to-date, a majority of investors at DuPont today voted in support of an As You Sow shareholder resolution asking the company to produce an annual report on the amount of pre-production plastic the company releases into the environment annually.
Read MoreAfter engagement with As You Sow on reducing single use plastic packaging, Keurig Dr Pepper Inc., the third largest non-alcoholic packaged beverage company in North America, has agreed to cut its use of virgin plastic for packaging by 20% by 2025. Keurig Dr Pepper used 208,000 metric tons of plastic packaging in 2018.
Read MoreShareholder representative As You Sow today released a report, “Plastics: The Last Straw for Big Oil?”, addressing the financial and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks of overinvestment in petrochemical infrastructure.
Read MoreAfter engagement with As You Sow on reducing single-use plastic packaging which contributes to ocean plastic pollution, snack and confectionery company Mondelez International and food and beverage giant PepsiCo have agreed to cut their use of virgin plastic for packaging as part of increased efforts to eliminate and replace single-use plastics.
Read MoreCiting urgent new data on the growing plastic pollution problem, As You Sow has filed shareholder proposals with 10 leading consumer goods companies and retailers, calling for commitments to absolute cuts in use of plastic packaging.
Read MoreFollowing engagement with As You Sow, a sixth major petrochemical manufacturer, Eastman Chemical, agreed to start reporting on spills of pre-production plastic pellets, or nurdles, manufactured in its production plants, following the filing of a shareholder proposal.
Read MoreRepublic Services Inc. has issued a report describing its plastic collection and recycling activities, and highlighting actions needed to increase plastics recycling in the U.S. Following the filing of a shareholder proposal by As You Sow and engagement earlier this year, the company agreed to publish the report.
Read MoreWaste Management Inc. has issued a “Report on Recycling” as the result of a dialogue earlier this year on boosting U.S. plastic recycling rates. China’s 2018 ban on plastic waste imports exposed the fragility of parts of the U.S. recycling collection and processing system.
Read MoreThe Kroger Co. announced this week new sustainable packaging goals that fail to acknowledge the urgency of the plastic pollution crisis, and lag competitor commitments.
Read MoreThis week, Walmart, Target, CVS Health, Kroger, and Walgreens announced a Beyond the Bag Initiative, a three-year project to “reinvent single-use plastic bags” by identifying design solutions for new systems to replace the function of the current retail plastic bag.
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