NESTLE'S PLASTIC MONSTER. Late April, 2019. Single-item pullout.


You're in the right place! This is the link for just this story, as an archived "stand alone."

This feature appears in the FULL EDITION, with all the other stories published on the same date, and a TABLE OF CONTENTS of that edition, at:

https://news-events-perspectives.blogspot.com/2019/04/news-events-perspectives-associated.html
___

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

# 10 feature... 
--
From the section:
☆  "Earth Day - Earth Week Special Features..."
--

NESTLE'S PLASTIC MONSTER


by Kate Melges

Yesterday, I was outside Nestlé’s United States corporate headquarters with... a giant plastic monster! (See photo.)

Plastic monster, made entirely of trash floating in the ocean.
In 2018 alone, Nestlé was responsible for creating nearly 4 billion pounds of single-use plastic packaging that in many cases is not recyclable or reusable — instead it will end up as waste forever haunting our planet!

We need to strike while the iron is hot. Will you help us tell Nestlé how dire the plastic pollution crisis truly is? Call Nestlé right this moment at 1-888-918-6672 and tell them they must phase out their reliance on single-use plastic packaging, and move to refillable and reusable options.

I cannot bear to see another headline about communities overrun by the global waste trade – or another dead whale with a gut full of plastic. So my friends and I called out Nestlé at its office with a giant monster made with discarded Nestlé packaging. If you feel like I do, please join us by calling out Nestlé over the phones.

Calling is easy, takes less than two minutes, and is one of the best ways to make sure Nestlé is listening. Just follow these simple steps:

Dial 1-888-918-6672. Listen to a short message from Greenpeace. We’ll then patch you through to Nestlé’s customer service line.When you’re connected, be polite and say what you think about Nestlé’s plastic packaging. Here is a suggested script:

"Hi, my name is __________ and I’m calling from (your CITY &  STATE). I’m very concerned by the massive amount of single-use plastic pollution and Nestlé is one of the largest global corporations that relies heavily on such packaging. I would like Nestlé to be an industry leader and phase out single-use plastic, while innovating bold, new solutions like refillable and reusable packaging. Thank you!"

You can also send a message demanding an end to single-use plastic on Nestle's Facebook. 

Not on Facebook? No problem, you can send a message on Instagram or Twitter.

Nestlé needs to hear from you right now. You’ve already joined millions signing petitions demanding an end to its single-use plastic and spreading the word on social media. They know they’ve created a problem, but they don’t want to be the ones to solve it. The solution, however, is in their hands, and the time is now. Nestlé must make the switch to systems of reuse. 

For a plastic free future,

Kate Melges
Senior Plastics Campaigner, Greenpeace USA
info@greenpeaceusa.org

Editor's note: of course, it's not just one company. 

EVERY MINUTE (of every hour,  every day), a monster-sized load of plastic — the equivalent of a truckload — enters the ocean. 

Here's a global map of plastic in the oceans, from the # 3 feature in this edition:

"Space represents a more promising vantage point; but satellites cannot detect plastic marine litter - at least, not yet."

Plastic litter in global oceans. Click to enlarge.

+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+

LEGALESE, CONTACTING US, 'N SUCH...

Boilerplate? Where's the main pressure gauge? And the firebox?

What "boilerplate"? Who came up with that goofy term for the basic essential informational stuff...

Visitor Privacy notice:

Whatever Google does in terms of planting cookies, tracking your web activities, and/or collecting data for analytics or whatever the hell it is they do with it -- we, the site content publishers, do NOT track you or receive any record of who you are. We can access simple counts -- raw numbers of site visitors -- by nation of origin, and that's ALL. But again, that's us and what we do and do not do. Refer to the Google legalese for what THEY do.
________________________________

Direct your peeps to our current editions / and

MOBILE-DEVICE-FRIENDLY

editions that load quickly, at:
.
.
<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>
.
POST COMMENTS using the site tools, or see next item.
.
<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>
.
CONTACT US -- Post Comments / Send Questions / say Howdy at:

.
<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>
.
JOURNALISTS, WRITERS, EDITORIAL CARTOONISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, ARTISTS, AND THOSE WHO CAN TELL A STORY WELL... if you would like to contribute something -- once, from time-to-time, or as a member of our ad hoc assemblage, please email managing editor Lawrence Wines, at:

news-events-perspectives-editor@outlook.com

<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>

Entire contents copyright © 2019,

Lawrence Wines & News Events Perspectives Associates.

All rights reserved.

That does NOT supersede individual copyrights held by content creators or photographers  or holders of copyrights to archived materials, but is an extra blanket of protection for everything that appears herein.

<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>-<^>
.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE GOLDEN SPIKE 150th -- A LOOK AT WHEN TRAINS WERE EXCITING. Late April, 2019. Single-item pullout.

Image
You're in the right place! This is the link for just this story, as an archived "stand alone." This feature appears in the FULL EDITION, with all the other stories published on the same date, and a TABLE OF CONTENTS of that edition, at: https://news-events-perspectives.blogspot.com/2019/04/news-events-perspectives-associated.html ___ +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ # 17 feature...  -- From the section: ☆  "EVENTS -- Arts, Entertainment, plus News about and FOR Artists..." -- GETTING READY FOR THE GOLDEN SPIKE --  A LOOK AT WHEN TRAINS WERE EXCITING O ur Managing Editor, Larry Wines, is headed to northern Utah for a very unique reason. He's ridden horseback on the Little Bighorn Battlefield on the anniversary day of the battle, with the last Crow war chief as his guide. He put to sea to welcome the Battleship Iowa to her new home as a museum. He was there when the first non-government-sponsored human space flight ...
Read more

Memorial Day 2019: a Challenging Perspective

by Lawrence Wines  It really bothers me that "honoring the service of our veterans" has become a door-opener for lemming-like support of the warconomy. Memorial Day was devised as a way to support widows and orphans of Union dead from the Civil War. By extension, because we keep having wars and so many people show-up to get killed in them, Memorial Day continued its purpose to honor the fallen of all our wars. That's not meant to diminish recognition of the necessity of military response to global fascism in the Second World War, when the outcome would determine what kind of world we would have. Nor can we be deluded into believing that valor, bravery, and sacrifice were unique to that war. Those human traits can be found in every generation, and we should recognize how problematic that is: because battlefield sacrifices are made, at terrible cost, in all manner of conflicts that influence nothing greater than which group of rich manipulators will be given the upper ha...
Read more

Complete edition, everything in one place! Late April edition, News, Events, Perspectives - Associated Journalists. Late April edition, 2019.

Image
Whether it's a newsroom or making a boiler ready to power the world's largest locomotive,  it's not the heavy lifting, but the attention to detail that's required to get it right.        THIS EDITION has everything -- science to politics, historical perspectives to arts workshops... the return of the world's largest locomotive is feature # 17. +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+ CONTENTS / There's plenty IN THIS EDITION ⊙   Introduction, welcome, what we're all about. (The longest thing in here.) -- ☆   The Main News -- though you might not find it any place but here ... -- 1)   GETTING MUELLER-FIED AIN'T GETTING MOLLIFIED (a very short feature) 2)   APRIL 19th IN HISTORY AND THE LEGACY THAT COULD RESURFACE ANY TIME 3)    YOUR INNOVATIVE IDEAS ARE NEEDED FOR "SPACE FOR THE OCEANS" 4)     HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUBBLE! -- ☆    Earth Day - Earth Week Sp...
Read more