Nestlé, Pepsi and Coca Cola remain among top plastic polluters in the world

Nestlé, Pepsi and Coca Cola are the top 3 most identified companies in global brand audits for the second year in a row, according to a new report “BRANDED Volume II: Identifying the World’s Top Corporate Plastic Polluters”, from a coalition of environmental organisations.

The results of the analysis, released by the Break Free From Plastic movement, prompted the authors to single out the corporations that finished in the top three for the second year in a row – Coca-Cola, Nestlé and PepsiCo – for having offered “mostly false solutions to the plastics crisis.”

“This report provides more evidence that corporations urgently need to do more to address the plastic pollution crisis they’ve created,” said Von Hernandez, global coordinator of the movement, which has nearly 1,800 member organisations worldwide. “Their continued reliance on single-use plastic packaging translates to pumping more throwaway plastic into the environment.”

The audit operation, conducted on World Cleanup Day in more than 50 countries last September, uncovered over 476,000 single-use plastic packages and other recuperated plastic waste, 43% of which could be clearly attributed to a specific brand.

The rest of the companies rounding out the top 10 polluters are Mondelēz International, Unilever, Mars, P&G, Colgate-Palmolive, Phillip Morris, and Perfetti Van Melle.

See full report here

Via SwissInfo/Breakfreefromplastic