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Stop the Dirty Dozen!

Target: The Dirty Dozen
Sponsored by: Dogwood Alliance

It's time for the world's fast-food companies to clean up their wrappers!

Fast food packaging makes up 20 percent of all litter
Food packaging takes up 15 percent of landfills
3/4 of all food and drink packages comes from forests
Over half of landfill waste is paper and wood products

The Dirty Dozen are biggest and baddest fast food companies responsible for this waste. Their piles of packaging have more to do with branding, marketing, and sales than the essential functions of protecting and transporting goods. And Southern U.S. forests account for approximately 60% of the wood and paper products produced in the US and 15% of the paper products produced worldwide.

These vital forests and their biodiversity are in danger! Act today!

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 2,500

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Dear Dirty Dozen:

I am joining Dogwood Alliance to ask for your help in protecting natural forests in the South and reducing the amount of paper packaging used in the United States. Southern forests are some of the most biologically diverse in North America and around the world. Unfortunately, the Southern U.S. is also the largest paper-producing region in the world with millions of acres being logged every year mostly for paper production and much of this paper is ending up in our landfills. In the United States we generate over 300 pounds of packaging waste per person each year, and food packaging takes up 15% of our landfills.

Where is your commitment to the environment? I am asking that your company reduce the amount of paper packaging being used, increase the amount of post consumer fiber in your packaging, and ensure your paper does not come from endangered forests.

Simple choices and creative solutions can reduce the excess and destruction while still allowing us to enjoy the level of convenience we have come to expect. We are asking you to work with us to solve the packaging problem, and to take the lead in the reform of the fast food industry to save our forests.

Sincerely,
[Your name here]

We took action on “Stop the Dirty Dozen!”!

# 3,200:

8:03 am PDT, Apr 21, Martin Barringer, Arizona

# 3,199:

8:03 am PDT, Apr 21, Todd Simmler, Oregon
Pack a lunch in reused bags or tupperware. Fast food is killing us all in several ways.

# 3,198:

8:00 am PDT, Apr 21, Caroline Fraissinet, New Jersey

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7:57 am PDT, Apr 21, Karla Devine, California

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7:53 am PDT, Apr 21, Rosalie Salvato, California

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7:50 am PDT, Apr 21, Misha Potter, Oregon

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7:46 am PDT, Apr 21, Susan Clarke-Mahoney, Pennsylvania

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7:46 am PDT, Apr 21, Christopher Cody, New Jersey

# 3,192:

7:46 am PDT, Apr 21, Holly Kobus, California

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7:45 am PDT, Apr 21, Katherine Philipsheck, California

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7:44 am PDT, Apr 21, Melissa Brooks, Arizona

# 3,189:

7:43 am PDT, Apr 21, Jessie Seybold, Wisconsin

# 3,188:

7:39 am PDT, Apr 21, Jennifer Boron, Florida
I'm going to think twice about purchasing from fast food companies who do not use recycled paper packaging. We don't need to damage the environment any further - especially because we live in a rushed society who depends on fast foods. Please stop the destruction of needed forests for our future and the animals whose habitat you are destroying! Thanks.

# 3,187:

7:36 am PDT, Apr 21, K. Tucker, Texas

# 3,186:

7:35 am PDT, Apr 21, Dena Rodriguez, Texas

# 3,185:

7:31 am PDT, Apr 21, Christopher Riff, Illinois

# 3,184:

7:29 am PDT, Apr 21, CANDACE J. HARBOWY, North Carolina
I LIVE IN THE SOUTH, AND IT'S BECOMING A CONCRETE JUNGLE, WETLANDS AND FORESTS ARE MAKING WAY FOR THE UNENDING GREED OF DEVELOPERS. PLEASE, PLEASE MAKE IT STOP.

# 3,183:

7:29 am PDT, Apr 21, CC Carty, Florida
What are you doing to undo or lessen the impact on the forests and the planet? What percentage goes to the refurbishing, replenishing, or replanting of what you TAKE?

# 3,182:

7:27 am PDT, Apr 21, Kim Miles, Iowa

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7:24 am PDT, Apr 21, Linda Arres, California

# 3,180:

7:23 am PDT, Apr 21, Susan Dillow, Pennsylvania

# 3,179:

7:22 am PDT, Apr 21, Cynthia Loomis, West Virginia
This is awful.

# 3,178:

7:21 am PDT, Apr 21, Leslie Swank, Missouri

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7:20 am PDT, Apr 21, Lori Rios, Illinois

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7:19 am PDT, Apr 21, Jacquelynn Maruffo, Florida

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7:11 am PDT, Apr 21, Maria Fernanda R Alvarez, Argentina

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7:08 am PDT, Apr 21, James McDevitt, North Carolina

# 3,173:

7:08 am PDT, Apr 21, Emilia Cardoso, Portugal

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7:02 am PDT, Apr 21, Carolyn Mullen, Maryland

# 3,171:

7:02 am PDT, Apr 21, David Dykhuizen, Tennessee
cutting trees for packaging? whether it be for the fast food industry or any other business, what are you thinking? don't you know that trees help filter the air we breath? when will you stop? when Planet Earth is bald & we are no longer breathing? please think about what you are doing.

# 3,170:

7:02 am PDT, Apr 21, Anne Casiere, South Carolina

# 3,169:

7:01 am PDT, Apr 21, Jamie Scott, Texas

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6:58 am PDT, Apr 21, Jan Hipson, Florida

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6:57 am PDT, Apr 21, Noelle Stroempl, Ohio

# 3,166:

6:55 am PDT, Apr 21, Dottie Herendon, Tennessee

# 3,165:

6:55 am PDT, Apr 21, Kimball Mathews, Florida
OMG, the animals have lost their homes and the birds are losing their nests to the 'fast food wrapper chains' that keep cutting down the trees. Please think about your children's children and what they will never know if this doesn't stop... and STOP NOW!!!

# 3,164:

6:52 am PDT, Apr 21, Michele Cabot, Massachusetts

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6:51 am PDT, Apr 21, Graciela Vargas, Costa Rica

# 3,162:

6:49 am PDT, Apr 21, RoseAnn Headley, Arizona

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6:48 am PDT, Apr 21, Penny Johnston, Wisconsin

# 3,160:

6:47 am PDT, Apr 21, Janet Luca, New Hampshire

# 3,159:

6:46 am PDT, Apr 21, Heather Dady, Iowa

# 3,158:

6:43 am PDT, Apr 21, STEVEN CHRISTENSEN, Florida

# 3,157:

6:41 am PDT, Apr 21, Melinda Johnston, New York

# 3,156:

6:37 am PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Missouri
We have landfills that are running out of space. All of this waste is killing off our forest and causing our landfills to overfill. We need to take action to decrese the nummber of paper products we use and one good place to stem that is the Fast Food industry itself.

# 3,155:

6:32 am PDT, Apr 21, Simon Reynolds, United Kingdom

# 3,154:

6:31 am PDT, Apr 21, Jack Holmes, Wisconsin
stop it now !

# 3,153:

6:30 am PDT, Apr 21, Stacy Detmer, Texas

# 3,152:

6:26 am PDT, Apr 21, Susan Bishop, Florida

# 3,151:

6:24 am PDT, Apr 21, Diana Wilcox, Indiana

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