Plastic Waste - Grocery Stores
Pressure Your Grocery Store to Reduce Plastic Packaging and Single-use Plastics
“The packaged goods industry is responsible for one-third of
all that plastic waste”
PC
WHAT CAN YOU DO IN 4 MINUTES?
Put pressure on your local grocery store!
Send your grocery store a message with
these three easy steps here
…
This type of pressure WORKS!
For example:
President Choice’s Glen Weston has laid out three concrete steps they are taking and recounts the pressure he has received from the “angriest customer emails I’ve ever received were about how much plastic cucumbers are wrapped in.”
See his note here: President’s Choice – Loblaws
Resources
The Guardian – Where does your plastic go? – Erin McCormick
CBC – How long does your trash last?
Environmental Protection Agency
President Choice’s Glen Weston Newsletter – PC
WHAT?
The packaged goods industry is responsible for one-third of all that plastic waste. – PC
WHO?
All of us: each of us eats a credit card worth of micro plastic each week
Future Generations: Your kids, your grandkids will still be dealing with your garbage!
The Poorest Nations: Our waste goes across the world overwhelming the poorer countries!
Wildlife: Animals ingest tiny pieces or plastic that are detrimental to their health!
GOAL
Reduce plastic waste in packaging and from single use plastics
SOLUTION
Put pressure on local grocery stores with direct contact (feedback forms, emails, calls).
Get them to commit to:
- Reducing plastic packaging
- Reducing single use plastics
- Reducing plastic waste
“Each of us eats a credit card worth of micro plastic each week”
ACT NOW
STEPS:
- Copy our written script
- Choose your grocery store
- Paste the script into the form and send
1. COPY THIS SCRIPT
Subject:
Your Commitment to Reduce Plastic Packaging and Waste[Company Name],
Content:
Your industry, the food industry, is one of the worst offenders when it comes to plastic waste!
So many products utilize unnecessary plastic packaging when there are other options and alternatives. – FoodPrint; CBC
This is a huge problem for:
- You and me – each of us eats a credit card worth of micro plastic each week – PC
- Future generations – who will be dealing with our garbage for hundreds of years – CBC
- Poorer nations – to whom we offload our garbage and are overwhelmed by it – Guardian
- Wildlife who ingest it or get entangled in it – CBC
President’s Choice has committed that by that by 2025 all PC products will have recyclable or reusable packaging
What are you committed to? What are you doing at the local store level?
How is your company:
- Reducing plastic packaging
- Reducing single use plastics
- Reducing plastic waste
Thank you for your concern and support,
[Your Name]
Concerned shopper – from your store [store location]
2. CHOOSE YOUR GROCERY Store:
GOT MORE THAN 4 MINUTES?
Conact more than one grocery store OR call or email your local store manager
I tried to send a message to Metro/Glebe but when I went to the Metro site you suggested, it was online. I was too lazy to look it up myself, but Food Basics was easier so I sent my message to the…just asked why they didn’t have or offer brown bags for packing groceries.
Fantastic! All our pressure will hopefully get them to act