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Stop the Dirty Dozen!
Target: The Dirty Dozen
Sponsored by: Dogwood Alliance
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!
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We took action on “Stop the Dirty Dozen!”!
# 3,250:
9:45 am PDT, Apr 21,
Ai Mahoney, Pennsylvania
# 3,249:
9:44 am PDT, Apr 21,
Bradley Eardley, New Hampshire
# 3,248:
9:44 am PDT, Apr 21,
Tamara Dunaeff, Ohio
# 3,247:
9:33 am PDT, Apr 21,
Caroline Schaffer, Connecticut
# 3,246:
9:31 am PDT, Apr 21,
Heidi Schweikl, Wisconsin
# 3,245:
9:28 am PDT, Apr 21,
Name not displayed, California
# 3,244:
9:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Natalie Jarnstedt, Connecticut
Minimal packaging, less junkmail will save our trees - but we must let them companies know how we feel. Our lives depend on trees.
Minimal packaging, less junkmail will save our trees - but we must let them companies know how we feel. Our lives depend on trees.
# 3,243:
9:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Laureana Miera, New Mexico
# 3,242:
9:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Heidi Hartman, California
# 3,241:
9:15 am PDT, Apr 21,
Laura Taylor, Texas
# 3,240:
9:10 am PDT, Apr 21,
Deanka Grisham, Georgia
# 3,239:
9:09 am PDT, Apr 21,
MCF Jongen, Netherlands
# 3,238:
9:08 am PDT, Apr 21,
Isabel Cain, Massachusetts
# 3,237:
9:07 am PDT, Apr 21,
Esther Scerri, Malta
# 3,236:
9:07 am PDT, Apr 21,
Marykay Polito, Illinois
# 3,235:
9:07 am PDT, Apr 21,
Murcia Pauline, France
# 3,234:
9:05 am PDT, Apr 21,
Anna Isakson, California
# 3,233:
9:04 am PDT, Apr 21,
NORA SHEA, New York
# 3,232:
9:03 am PDT, Apr 21,
Margot Vanetten, New York
# 3,231:
9:01 am PDT, Apr 21,
Kassandra Timm, California
# 3,230:
8:59 am PDT, Apr 21,
Danielle Callahan, Hawaii
# 3,229:
8:58 am PDT, Apr 21,
Jamie Adams, Florida
# 3,228:
8:56 am PDT, Apr 21,
Dhana Schaal, Tennessee
# 3,227:
8:55 am PDT, Apr 21,
Steve DeVivo, New Jersey
# 3,226:
8:53 am PDT, Apr 21,
April Dumas, Oregon
# 3,225:
8:52 am PDT, Apr 21,
Arlys Murphy, Texas
I think that it is disgusting and the people doing it are disgusting.
I think that it is disgusting and the people doing it are disgusting.
# 3,224:
8:50 am PDT, Apr 21,
Alicia Coram, New York
# 3,223:
8:49 am PDT, Apr 21,
Ivo Mutaftchiev, New York
Fast Food chains can keep and increase their profits by creating less trash !
Fast Food chains can keep and increase their profits by creating less trash !
# 3,222:
8:49 am PDT, Apr 21,
Charlotte Park, New Hampshire
# 3,221:
8:48 am PDT, Apr 21,
Karen Schieb, Texas
# 3,220:
8:47 am PDT, Apr 21,
Cristina Popa, Romania
# 3,219:
8:46 am PDT, Apr 21,
Matthew Keffer, Illinois
# 3,218:
8:46 am PDT, Apr 21,
Laurie LaFlash, Massachusetts
# 3,217:
8:45 am PDT, Apr 21,
Judith Medwid, Canada
# 3,216:
8:42 am PDT, Apr 21,
Tai Summers-McGuinness, Massachusetts
Disgraceful!! Cutting down trees to make containers for unhealthy fast food that is destroying American's health and putting us into a health care crisis? Who's idea was that?!!
Disgraceful!! Cutting down trees to make containers for unhealthy fast food that is destroying American's health and putting us into a health care crisis? Who's idea was that?!!
# 3,215:
8:34 am PDT, Apr 21,
Jane Reynolds, Wisconsin
# 3,214:
8:33 am PDT, Apr 21,
Frances Leonardo, New Jersey
# 3,213:
8:30 am PDT, Apr 21,
Greg Funk, Washington
My wife and I do our part we by recycled products, take our own bags to the store, we recycle and promote it to others, and we by things based on these things. Fast food places have to be made to try different ways of cutting there waste.
My wife and I do our part we by recycled products, take our own bags to the store, we recycle and promote it to others, and we by things based on these things. Fast food places have to be made to try different ways of cutting there waste.
# 3,212:
8:29 am PDT, Apr 21,
Jessica Coker, North Carolina
# 3,211:
8:26 am PDT, Apr 21,
Bonnie Pelton, Arizona
Bring lunches and recycle! stop tearing down our forests!!!!! It hurts ALL of us.........
Bring lunches and recycle! stop tearing down our forests!!!!! It hurts ALL of us.........
# 3,210:
8:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Susan Willits, Kansas
It is truly sad that people create so much waste. We have to stop cutting down the forests.
It is truly sad that people create so much waste. We have to stop cutting down the forests.
# 3,209:
8:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Charmaine Michaels, New Jersey
# 3,208:
8:25 am PDT, Apr 21,
Barbara Ward, North Carolina
# 3,207:
8:23 am PDT, Apr 21,
Alisha Seaton, California
Don't let todays "needs" destroy tomorrow.
Don't let todays "needs" destroy tomorrow.
# 3,206:
8:23 am PDT, Apr 21,
Fernanda Vieira, Brazil
# 3,205:
8:17 am PDT, Apr 21,
Jane Hwei Lee, Illinois
# 3,204:
8:13 am PDT, Apr 21,
Harvey Lowe, Georgia
Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. More than half of all paper produced in the United States is used in paper packaging. And fast food companies are some of the worst offenders. It's time for the world's fast-food companies to clean up their wrappers.
Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. More than half of all paper produced in the United States is used in paper packaging. And fast food companies are some of the worst offenders. It's time for the world's fast-food companies to clean up their wrappers.
# 3,203:
8:06 am PDT, Apr 21,
Veronica Taylor, Georgia
# 3,202:
8:05 am PDT, Apr 21,
John Edwards, Maryland
# 3,201:
8:03 am PDT, Apr 21,
Jessi Kiroyan, Australia
Not only are the Southern forests in the USA being cut down for disposable junk food wrappings, actual whole football fields' worth of old growth forests in the continent of Southern America (a lot in Brazil) are being cut down to 'provide land' for cattle raising, a lot of which goes to these junk food companies in the States!! Unique ecologies and biodiversities are being lost before their contributions to our planet have been properly understood by we humans... It's very typical of people to move in, obliterate ecosystems and when negative consequences arise, oh well, they'll figure it all out later...NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I understand these companies employ a lot of people and I dont' wish for their livelihoods to be taken away by saying we should ban these companies, but there has to be a better way for economical needs AND sustainable use of Earth's resources to co-exist. Here's a simple idea: by recycling office papers perhaps to make these junk food containers? That's an obvious one for a start.
Not only are the Southern forests in the USA being cut down for disposable junk food wrappings, actual whole football fields' worth of old growth forests in the continent of Southern America (a lot in Brazil) are being cut down to 'provide land' for cattle raising, a lot of which goes to these junk food companies in the States!! Unique ecologies and biodiversities are being lost before their contributions to our planet have been properly understood by we humans... It's very typical of people to move in, obliterate ecosystems and when negative consequences arise, oh well, they'll figure it all out later...NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I understand these companies employ a lot of people and I dont' wish for their livelihoods to be taken away by saying we should ban these companies, but there has to be a better way for economical needs AND sustainable use of Earth's resources to co-exist. Here's a simple idea: by recycling office papers perhaps to make these junk food containers? That's an obvious one for a start.