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Zero Plastic Initiative Is Being Supported By Companies



 From small companies to large ones , we've compiled a top four list of companies that are truly challenging themselves and making the biggest impact in reducing plastic.  


  


Starbucks Coffee Company 

Starbucks removed single use plastic straws from more than 28,000 company operated and authorized stores, offering straw-free lids or alternative  straws worldwide. Starbucks, the largest food and beverage retailer to make such a global commitment, hopes the move will remove more than a billion plastic straws a year from Starbucks stores. 

Starbucks' goal to eliminate plastic straws from its stores worldwide by 2020 represents the future of the company by solving the entire problem of material waste," says Erin Simon, director of materials science at WWF USA. 



McDonald's 

With more than 36,000 restaurants in 122 locations, it's clear that McDonald's is committed to doing something "around the world," that's what it means. 

The fast food chain has not received  good press for its business practices over the years, and recent environmental commitments may have been designed to combat this negative image.  

100 percent of its packaging comes from renewable, recycled or certified sustainable sources over the next eight years. 

The change was supported by major environmental organizations, and McDonald's promised to work with the local government to  achieve the goal.  If successful, it would mean an enormous amount of plastic leaving the world's oceans and an unprecedented number of people.


 ASDA

 Even before ASDA's proposed merger with Sainsbury's, the British grocer made bold commitments about plastic pollution.  Earlier this year, it unveiled a plan to immediately reduce plastic use by 10 percent in 2018, which will require replacing 2.4 million drinking straws. All  its stores will also eliminate single-use cups and cutlery by 2019. In the long term, it has set a goal of making all of its branded packaging recyclable by the mid-2020s. With the company currently serving 18 million people a week, the potential to change consumer behavior is huge. 

 ASDA is also owned by US giant Walmart, and the merger with Sainsbury's will create the UK's largest supermarket chain. It is not certain whether the latter will implement ASDA's plastic plans, but it may be under pressure.



Nestle 

In 2019, Nestlé,  the world's largest packaged food company, removed all plastic straws from its products. As part of this commitment to reduce waste, they are switching Nesquik drinks from plastic to paper packaging, while Nestlé Waters is increasing the content of recycled PET  in its bottles to 50% in the US. And by 2025, Nestlé has pledged to make 100 percent of it's product packaging recyclable or reusable.

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