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Helping consumers fight plastic waste

Only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for recycling so recycling alone will not solve the plastic waste crisis and reuse models are needed
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Published May 23, 2022

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Anheuser-Busch InBev

Carlsberg Group

Green Sports Alliance

Ingka Group (IKEA)

Johnson Controls

Potential Energy

World Economic Forum

Yale School of the Environment

City of Philadelphia

Closed Loop Partners

The Coca-Cola Company

Ellen MacArthur Foundation

New York City Mayor's Office of Sustainability

NSF International

Paris City Hall

Procter & Gamble

Starbucks Coffee

Suntory Holdings

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

WWF International

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