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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!”!

# 3,350:

10:49 pm PDT, Apr 22, Meg Stevens, Canada

# 3,349:

10:39 pm PDT, Apr 22, Carys Jones, Canada
There are many alternatives to using cartons produced from Southern forests. How about starch-based compostable containers and utensils made from bamboo?

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10:14 pm PDT, Apr 22, Stephanie Fourqurean, Texas

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8:29 pm PDT, Apr 22, Kayla Philbrick, Maine

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4:07 pm PDT, Apr 22, Dave Sennett, Pennsylvania

# 3,345:

3:32 pm PDT, Apr 22, Name not displayed, California
I can't believe people eat this crap anyway!!

# 3,344:

3:28 pm PDT, Apr 22, Angela McFall, Michigan

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3:17 pm PDT, Apr 22, Ashley Fancher, Texas

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2:53 pm PDT, Apr 22, Name not displayed, Georgia

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2:09 pm PDT, Apr 22, Alex Pierpaoli, Connecticut

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1:36 pm PDT, Apr 22, Ava Brooks, Texas

# 3,339:

1:02 pm PDT, Apr 22, Paul Burke Journey Home, Virginia
How sad that profit is put before sustainability - how short sighted - how greedy and lazy as they wait for the "other guy" to do something about it. We are fools for not moving profit out of the number one slot of our priority list and putting it behind sustainability, health and education. Fools, short term, greedy, just plain dumb, vision less fools headed for our own demise by our own hand, brilliant America, brilliant. Hey but our profit margin increased this quarter - dee, d, deee

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11:09 am PDT, Apr 22, Jodi Akins, Canada

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10:44 am PDT, Apr 22, Rachel LeGros, California

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10:31 am PDT, Apr 22, Karen VDay, Indiana

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10:01 am PDT, Apr 22, Laura Waszazak, New Jersey

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9:53 am PDT, Apr 22, Cara Gubrud, Minnesota

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9:49 am PDT, Apr 22, Name not displayed, Michigan

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9:20 am PDT, Apr 22, Kathryn Holt, United Kingdom
Please leave the forest for the wildlife and for future generations. We are the earths caretakers not the owners. the worlds resources aren't there for man to plunder but for us all to look after.

# 3,331:

7:49 am PDT, Apr 22, Jessamyn Smallenburg, Michigan
It's unacceptable for this practice to continue.

# 3,330:

7:35 am PDT, Apr 22, Jasmina Sabrihafizovic, Bosnia And Herzegovina

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7:28 am PDT, Apr 22, Brian Mullins, Tennessee

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7:23 am PDT, Apr 22, Kat Herrschaft, Delaware

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7:16 am PDT, Apr 22, Freddie Geisler, Massachusetts

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7:09 am PDT, Apr 22, Amy Lundy, Ohio

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7:06 am PDT, Apr 22, Nathalie Shortreed, Canada

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6:16 am PDT, Apr 22, Jessica LeAnn, Illinois

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4:35 am PDT, Apr 22, Marie Alabiso, Massachusetts

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3:35 am PDT, Apr 22, Faith Marcelino, Philippines

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8:17 pm PDT, Apr 21, Karen Stillwell, Tennessee

# 3,320:

5:03 pm PDT, Apr 21, Nadine Marothy, Canada
An avoidable waste. How about returnable containers etc. like the beer industry?

# 3,319:

3:57 pm PDT, Apr 21, Hannah Harrison, United Kingdom

# 3,318:

3:35 pm PDT, Apr 21, Lisa Lundin, Massachusetts

# 3,317:

1:52 pm PDT, Apr 21, Brian Reynolds, New Jersey

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1:00 pm PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, New York

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12:52 pm PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Michigan

# 3,314:

12:43 pm PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Arizona
RECYCLE EVERYTHING! Paper, plastic, aluminum, glass etc. That is the best way to save our environment.

# 3,313:

12:40 pm PDT, Apr 21, Susan Cooney, Connecticut

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12:33 pm PDT, Apr 21, Jordan Davidson, Ohio

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12:32 pm PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Indiana

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12:31 pm PDT, Apr 21, Alina Navrea, Romania

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12:31 pm PDT, Apr 21, Name not displayed, Massachusetts

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12:30 pm PDT, Apr 21, Mary Beth Hostrup, Florida

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12:25 pm PDT, Apr 21, Jennifer Otting, Florida

# 3,306:

12:24 pm PDT, Apr 21, Sascha Olivier-Sampson, Namibia
This earth, the environment, it's our life. By taking our life you are killing us. Please don't let the mark you leave on this world be that of a murderer

# 3,305:

12:24 pm PDT, Apr 21, Emily Tregelles, Pennsylvania

# 3,304:

12:23 pm PDT, Apr 21, Leslie Calixto, Arizona
This needs to stop please recycle and do alternatives. Our trees are critical to keeping the earth alive.

# 3,303:

12:23 pm PDT, Apr 21, Temeca Shupe, North Carolina

# 3,302:

12:22 pm PDT, Apr 21, George Moschis, Georgia

# 3,301:

12:19 pm PDT, Apr 21, Carol Munsterman, Texas

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