The charity Tearfund has compiled a league table of how the companies, and Unilever and Nestlé, are faring in their commitments set against a three-point plan. The plan calls on companies to:
- report by the end of 2020 the amount of single-use in units and volume they sell country by country,
- reduce this by half by 2025 by moving to refillables and
- ensure by 2022 one item is recycled for every single-use plastic item sold in developing countries.
All the companies have published and committed to publishing annual global data on their plastic footprint, but none have published this information country by country. Pepsi and Coca-Cola have not publicly committed to reducing this by 2025, or to invest in reusables or refillables as part of this reduction, Tearfund said in its analysis. Unilever and Nestlé scored highest in its commitments to reduce its plastic footprint in developing countries.
Last month a Tearfund report found the four global drinks giants are responsible for more than half a million tonnes of plastic pollution in six developing countries each year, enough to cover 83 football pitches every day. Greenhouse gas emissions from the open burning of their plastic bottles, sachets and cartons create 4.6m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent – equivalent to the emissions from 1.5m cars, they calculated. Coca-Cola said it was aware the Tearfund report raised serious concerns.
Source: Edie
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