Tell Whole Foods Market: Planet Over Plastic
Whole Foods CEO John Mackey
Plastic waste is clogging our landfills, littering our streets, polluting our parks, and escaping into our rivers and oceans at a rate of 8 million tons a year. Plastic packaging, such as plastic food wrappers, topped the list of most commonly found items of trash polluting our beaches.
Whole Foods has led on plastics in the past when it became the first U.S. grocer to eliminate plastic bags at checkout. But the company has started to lag behind competitors and recently got an F in a report by As You Sow for failing to tackle plastic pollution. Whole Foods customers care about their health and don’t want to contribute to a legacy of plastic pollution when they shop, and we know they want Whole Foods to eliminate single-use plastic packaging items from their stores.
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Whole Foods CEO John Mackey
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Dear John Mackey,
Our oceans -- and the whales, dolphins and sea turtles that live in them -- are choking on plastic trash. We need to turn off the tap on the 8 million metric tons of plastic pollution that enters the ocean each year, and you can play a leading role by eliminating single-use plastic packaging.
Nothing that is used for just a couple of minutes should pollute our rivers and oceans for hundreds of years -- especially when we don’t need it. If we’re going to protect ocean ecosystems, we need companies to make bold, concrete commitments to reduce and ultimately eliminate single-use plastic packaging. I’m urging Whole Foods to be a leader once again. Please eliminate all single-use plastic packaging from your operations.