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</li><li>Environment section, see “What do you think about the Bottled Life documentary?” and “What is Nestlé doing to tackle plastic packaging waste?”.x | </li><li>Environment section, see “What do you think about the Bottled Life documentary?” and “What is Nestlé doing to tackle plastic packaging waste?”.x | ||
source: https://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/environment | source: https://www.nestle.com/ask-nestle/environment | ||
</li>< | </li></ul></ref> Nothing forces companies to honour their promises, but for now Nestlé is committing for 100% recyclable and reusable packaging by 2025, which is a good news considering the brand uses more than 1.5M metric tons of plastic every year (which correspond to 1% of the single-use plastic produced worldwide<ref>Plastic Oceans NGO website: | ||
300M tons of plastic is produced worldwide, with approx. 50% being single-used (like most packages from Nestlé), and knowing Nestlé produced 1.5M tons every year, this makes 1.5/150M, with equals to 1% of the single-used plastic. | 300M tons of plastic is produced worldwide, with approx. 50% being single-used (like most packages from Nestlé), and knowing Nestlé produced 1.5M tons every year, this makes 1.5/150M, with equals to 1% of the single-used plastic. | ||
source: https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/</ref>). When it comes to “planting trees”, the European Commission is clear: in the carbon market, “planting trees” cannot be considered as an offset to companies carbon footprint, since environmental threats and illegal logging make it impossible to measure carbon sequestration of forests over time.<ref>“Will it be possible to use credits from carbon ‘sinks’ like forests?”, EU Action, Climate Action, on European Commission website. | source: https://plasticoceans.org/the-facts/</ref>). When it comes to “planting trees”, the European Commission is clear: in the carbon market, “planting trees” cannot be considered as an offset to companies carbon footprint, since environmental threats and illegal logging make it impossible to measure carbon sequestration of forests over time.<ref>“Will it be possible to use credits from carbon ‘sinks’ like forests?”, EU Action, Climate Action, on European Commission website. | ||