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April 11th, 2018 
Awake Goy The environmental impact of the world’s plastic consumption is profound. Plastic trash and the tiny pieces that chip off it can be found everywhere—oceans, marine life, land and our bodies, too.
To help solve this planetary crisis, Nestlé pledged Tuesday to make all its plastic packaging 100 percent recyclable or reusable by 2025. The Swiss food giant envisions a world where “none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter,” it said.
“Plastic waste is one of the biggest sustainability issues the world is facing today. Tackling it requires a collective approach,” Nestlé CEO Mark Schneider said in a statement.
Nestlé joins a number of major international corporations, such as rival Unilever, making similar commitments.
However, environmentalists say the move is not enough. As the world’s largest food and beverage company, Nestlé’s wide expanse of products—which includes bottled water, chocolate candy bars and instant coffee pods—”helped to create” this plastic pollution problem in the first place, according to a fiery response from Greenpeace.
In a statement provided to EcoWatch, Greenpeace criticized Nestlé’s statement for not including clear targets or a timeline to reduce and eventually phase out single-use plastics.
“Nestlé’s statement on plastic packaging includes more of the same greenwashing baby steps to tackle a crisis it helped to create,” Greenpeace oceans campaigner Graham Forbes said. “It will not actually move the needle toward the reduction of single-use plastics in a meaningful way, and sets an incredibly low standard as the largest food and beverage company in the world. The statement is full of ambiguous or nonexistent targets, relies on ‘ambitions’ to do better, and puts the responsibility on consumers rather than the company to clean up its own plastic pollution.”
During a 2017 beach clean-up on Freedom Island in the Philippines, the third worst polluter of the world’s oceans, Greenpeace volunteers and coalition partners found more discarded Nestlé products than any other brand.
.@Unilever @ProcterGamble @Nestle named in Philippines plastic pollution beach audit #BreakFreeFromPlastic >> https://t.co/cRxclr6yvR pic.twitter.com/6O6tAmmn2x
— Greenpeace (@Greenpeace) September 22, 2017
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