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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world\u2019s plastic pollution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Study confirms Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestl\u00e9, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world\u2019s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that, based on the findings of a piece of\u00a0research published on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The researchers concluded that for every percentage increase in plastic produced, there was an equivalent increase in plastic pollution in the environment.<\/p>\n

\u201cProduction really is pollution,\u201d says one of the study\u2019s authors,\u00a0Lisa Erdle<\/a>, director of science at the non-profit The 5 Gyres Institute.<\/p>\n

An international team of volunteers collected and surveyed more than 1,870,000 items of plastic waste across 84 countries over five years: the bulk of the rubbish collected was single-use packaging for food, beverage, and tobacco products.<\/p>\n

Less than half of that plastic litter had discernible branding that could be traced back to the company that produced the packaging; the rest could not be accounted for or taken responsibility for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis shows very, very, very well the need for transparency and traceability,\u201d says a study author,\u00a0Patricia Villarrubia-G\u00f3mez<\/a>, a plastic pollution researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. \u201c[We need] to know who is producing what, so they can take responsibility, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

The branded half of the plastic was the responsibility of just 56 fast-moving consumer goods multinational companies, and a quarter of that was from just six companies.<\/p>\n

The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestl\u00e9 each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the\u00a0Coca-Cola<\/a>\u00a0company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe industry likes to put the responsibility on the individual,\u201d says the study\u2019s author,\u00a0Marcus Eriksen<\/a>, a plastic pollution expert from The 5 Gyres Institute.<\/p>\n

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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world\u2019s plastic pollution Study confirms Altria, Philip Morris International, Danone, Nestl\u00e9, PepsiCo and Coca-Cola are worst offenders Fewer than 60 multinationals are responsible for more than half of the world\u2019s plastic pollution, with six responsible for a quarter of that, based on the findings of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34428,12406,34430,1535,7283,34431,34429,1857,34427,34426,6917,1215],"class_list":["post-67736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-altria","tag-coca-cola","tag-danone","tag-hydrocarbons","tag-nestle","tag-pepsico","tag-philip-morris-international","tag-plastics","tag-pollutions","tag-sofia-quaglia","tag-the-guardian","tag-toxins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67737,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67736\/revisions\/67737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}