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Urge Gerber Baby Foods to stop using plastic wrapping

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Gerber Baby Foods
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Gerber has provided baby food products to busy parents for over fifty years and, although their products have become more organically inclined, their packaging is not environmentally healthy at all.  Each bottle is individually wrapped with plastic wrap and bottles are packaged in boxes with plastic wrap around them.  With millions of customers buying baby food every day, that adds up to a lot of non-recyclable and non-biodegradable plastic ending up in landfills around the world.

With millions of tonnes of plastic sitting in landfills today, and a sea of plastic trash in the ocean, we; parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, teachers, and friends, are urging Gerber to stop packaging baby food bottles in any layers of  plastic.  The bottles are vacuum sealed to ensure freshness and there are alternative materials to keep the bottles from clinking together, thus preventing possible breakage in transport.

Please do not add more unnatural non-biodegradable waste to our planet.  Our children's futures depend on our respect and responsibility for the health of their future environment.  Much of today's plastic is derived from petroleum products and plastic wrapping is one of them.  Petroleum is a dirty product which does not break down into organic components.  If you must have a plastic-like wrapping, please convert to plastic substitutes such as PLA, a corn based plastic, which breaks down in about 12 days.
Gerber has provided baby food products to busy parents for over fifty years and, although their products have become more organically inclined, their packaging is not environmentally healthy at all.  Each bottle is individually wrapped with plastic wrap and bottles are packaged in boxes with plastic wrap around them.  With millions of customers buying baby food every day, that adds up to a lot of non-recyclable and non-biodegradable plastic ending up in landfills around the world.

With millions of tonnes of plastic sitting in landfills today, and a sea of plastic trash in the ocean, we; parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, teachers, and friends, are urging Gerber to stop packaging baby food bottles in any layers of  plastic.  The bottles are vacuum sealed to ensure freshness and there are alternative materials to keep the bottles from clinking together, thus preventing possible breakage in transport.

Please do not add more unnatural non-biodegradable waste to our planet.  Our children's futures depend on our respect and responsibility for the health of their future environment.  Much of today's plastic is derived from petroleum products and plastic wrapping is one of them.  Petroleum is a dirty product which does not break down into organic components.  If you must have a plastic-like wrapping, please convert to plastic substitutes such as PLA, a corn based plastic, which breaks down in about 12 days.
We, the undersigned, ask that Gerber Baby Foods stop Urge Gerber Baby Foods to stop using plastic wrapping for the food products.

With millions of tonnes of plastic sitting in landfills today, and a sea of plastic trash in the ocean, we; parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, sisters, teachers, and friends, are urging Gerber to stop packaging baby food bottles in any layers of  plastic.  The bottles are vacuum sealed to ensure freshness and there are alternative materials to keep the bottles from clinking together, thus preventing possible breakage in transport.

Please do not add more unnatural non-biodegradable waste to our planet.  Our children's futures depend on our respect and responsibility for the health of their future environment.  Much of today's plastic is derived from petroleum products and plastic wrapping is one of them.  Petroleum is a dirty product which does not break down into organic components.  If you must have a plastic-like wrapping, please convert to plastic substitutes such as PLA, a corn based plastic, which breaks down in about 12 days.
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We signed the "Urge Gerber Baby Foods to stop using plastic wrapping" petition!
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2:11 pm PST, Feb 3, Anna Wolska, Canada
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12:44 pm PST, Jan 14, Conni Kilman, Colorado
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2:55 pm PST, Dec 18, Cema Thld, Mexico
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3:00 pm PST, Dec 6, Stefany Fairbanks, Tennessee
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2:33 pm PST, Nov 6, Kath Burley, United Kingdom
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2:19 pm PST, Nov 6, Lisa Mann, United Kingdom
# 240:
12:09 pm PST, Nov 4, Jill Vandeventer, Indiana
No more plastic trash!
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10:24 am PST, Nov 4, Name not displayed, Indiana
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9:21 pm PDT, Oct 18, C Knox, Illinois
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12:02 am PDT, Aug 13, Name not displayed, California
This act will contribute to the health and well-being of families and the future of people and the environment.
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1:22 pm PDT, Jul 29, Ana Carolina Abreu, Brazil
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12:39 am PDT, Jul 15, JOSSIE ROSS, Canada
# 232:
8:36 am PDT, Jul 8, Paola Sanchez, Puerto Rico
They should go back to old glass bottles for juices... i dont know whats up with plastic 7!!
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8:47 pm PDT, Jun 17, Julia Tawyea', Pennsylvania
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6:22 am PDT, May 12, Rebecca Fulco, New Jersey
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11:41 pm PDT, May 11, Mikey Sudsy, Canada
as a baby i get organic baby food. i know there's no reason for the plastic wrap, since the earths best and pc organic baby foods have none.
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4:30 pm PDT, May 11, Name not displayed, California
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1:28 pm PDT, May 11, Christina Maniaci, Ohio
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10:52 am PDT, May 11, Lilac Alfke, Texas
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9:37 am PDT, May 11, Ana Maria Carvalho, Brazil
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7:57 am PDT, May 11, Susan Suni Ibarra, California
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!!!??????? DO YOU THINK YOU SIT AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD AND DO NOT HAVE TO LIFT A FINGER TO HELP STOP THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS PLANET?? DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN JUST KEEP DUMPING THIS PLASTIC JAR COVERING DEBRI OUT THERE INTO THIS WORLD, WHEN WE ARE ALREADY STARTING TO CIRCLE THE DRAIN???? DO YOU NOT REALIZE THAT IT IS YOU WHO ARE TAKING THIS PLANET DOWN THE DRAIN??????? STOP POLLUTING AND STEP ASIDE OUT OF THE WAY OF THOSE THAT ARE TRYING TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO SAVE THIS WORLD!!!!!! WHY DON'T YOU JUST GO OFF SOMEWHERE AND SHOOT YOURSELVES IN SHAME FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING????!!!!!!!!!!!!
# 206:
7:33 am PDT, May 11, Day Elam, Tennessee
What concerns me is if the baby got ahold of that little bit of plastic & either choked or it could cause an obstruction. Parents are careful, but babies are clever.
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6:48 am PDT, May 11, Jerilyn Capaccione, Pennsylvania
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6:20 am PDT, May 11, Debbie Peterson, New Jersey
please stop using plastic its a huge waste and ruins the earth for our children!
# 203:
4:41 am PDT, May 11, Rafael Angel, Sweden
Such a Company but such a Ignorant and unintelligence company !!! You Produce Baby food and Poisson them att the same Time and for Generations to come . You shall be Baned from Earth !!! so Change or dessapear !!!
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1:04 am PDT, May 11, Elizabeth Goldstone, Israel
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12:13 am PDT, May 11, Polly Pagan, United Kingdom
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