Thursday, March 28, 2019

2 critical weeks

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We need to crank up the pressure against Nestlé's plastic pollution before April 11!

Thank you for signing our petition to Nestlé. Can you believe that the corporation — the world's largest food company — has built its entire business model on throwaway packaging?

It makes me furious, but it's true. 98% of Nestlé's products are sold in single-use packaging.

We need Nestlé to make big changes this year and that means we need to crank up the pressure before the corporation's annual shareholder meeting in two weeks.

Will you help recruit 5 friends to demand Nestlé make real commitments to protect our oceans and communities by phasing out single-use plastic packaging? We need hundreds of thousands of signatures before April 11 to make Nestlé feel the heat.

Here's what you can do.

  1. Email this message to five friends and ask them to click on this link to sign the petition: http://bit.ly/2utk6Zh
  2. Click here to share the petition on Facebook.

There is no time to lose. Have you heard that every minute a truckload of plastic enters the oceans? Corporations — starting with Nestlé — must reverse their tide of plastic pollution or even more communities, whales, sea turtles and birds will suffer.

I know people-power can force Nestlé to go from pollution to solutions. How?

  • We're building off your successes. Some of the biggest food service and supermarket companies are stepping away from plastics and that will put pressure on corporations like Nestlé.
  • Nestlé is already feeling the heat. Because millions of people like you have already spoken out, Nestlé has finally acknowledged that recycling alone won't solve the plastic pollution crisis. Now it's up to you to make sure Nestlé goes beyond greenwashing and makes real commitments to phase out single-use plastic. It knows its reputation is at stake.
  • We're building a global movement. Millions of people, and dozens of organizations, from every continent are posed to take creative action calling out Nestlé. That is a force that cannot be ignored!

But for your voice to have the biggest impact, I need you to spread the word right now before Nestlé's Annual General Meeting for shareholders on April 11. This is its most important day of the year, and our biggest chance to expose its massive plastic pollution.

Ask your friends to sign this petition to Nestlé today!

By taking action today, you will help change history. Nestlé is such a big corporation that commitments to phasing out single-use plastic will shift the entire industry.

You can make Nestlé — and other mega-corporations — see that breaking free from plastic isn't a passing trend, but a movement that won't stop until we have a circular economy based on reuse, instead of waste. It won't happen unless you start spreading the word right now.

Thanks for all you do,

Annie Leonard
Executive Director, Greenpeace USA

P.S. Nestlé's Annual General Meeting for shareholders is April 11. This is the perfect time to crank up the pressure on Nestlé. Forward this message and share the petition on Facebook to demand Nestlé immediately move toward phasing out single-use plastics and embracing systems of refill and reuse.

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