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Stop Fast Food Chains From Using Paper From Endangered Forests

Target: Yum Brands CEO David Novak
Sponsored by: Dogwood Alliance

Packaging symbolizes the disposable society we have become. More than half of all paper produced in the United States is used in paper packaging.

Fast Food Industry giants including Yum! Brands (which brings you Pizza Hut, KFC, Taco Bell and more) are big buyers of paper packaging from the forests of the Southern US.

With nearly 100 packaging mills in the South, forests are being destroyed to bring you fried chicken, burgers, fries and super-sized convenience in a glut of wrappers, boxes and cups.

On top of this, millions of pounds of food packaging waste litter our roadways, clog our landfills and spoil our quality of life. Over half of landfill waste is paper and wood products.

Send an email to Yum Brands CEO David Novak asking him to reduce the company's packaging, stop using paper from endangered Southern forests and use more recycled paper!

deadline: 10-1-2008
goal: 2,000

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CEO David Novak,

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? Yum! Brands, as an industry leader plays a key role in the fate of the native forests in the Southern US and can lead the reform away from wasteful paper packaging. And as one of the leading paper packaging producers 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 packaging industry to save our forests.

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We signed the “Stop Fast Food Chains From Using Paper From Endangered Forests” petition!

# 5,361:

10:31 am PDT, Jul 3, Heather Gregory, South Carolina

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8:22 pm PDT, Jun 30, Katalin Bishop, Canada
stop using paper from endangered Southern forests and use more recycled paper!

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6:38 pm PDT, Jun 28, Jeff Watson, Texas

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8:17 am PDT, Jun 27, Miranda Fitzgerald, Kentucky

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5:12 pm PDT, Jun 9, Annette Rauch, Rhode Island
minimize packaging; develop a system where customers could bring their own packaging with them and use it over and over

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12:42 pm PDT, Jun 4, Amanda Wolf, Colorado

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2:19 pm PDT, Jun 2, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin

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8:47 am PDT, May 31, Name not displayed, California

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3:18 am PDT, May 29, Thomas Jones, New York

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4:17 pm PDT, May 28, Greta Malkotzoglou, Greece

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9:29 am PDT, May 28, Janet Chase, Oregon

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4:00 pm PDT, May 23, Jonatan Nyberg, Finland

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4:20 am PDT, May 19, Don Meade, Massachusetts

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9:22 pm PDT, May 10, Marvin C Gentz, California

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9:45 am PDT, May 8, Jennifer Yuson, North Carolina

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1:05 am PDT, Apr 30, Kevin Miller, California

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8:33 am PDT, Apr 27, Hanne Smessaert, Belgium

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2:18 pm PDT, Apr 25, Megan Grant, Illinois

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8:32 am PDT, Apr 23, Anja Gundermann, Germany

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6:47 pm PDT, Apr 19, Cynthia Parker, Virginia

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6:21 pm PDT, Apr 19, Jan Johnson, Florida

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11:05 am PDT, Apr 19, Lauren Stone, California

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1:06 am PDT, Apr 19, Julia Tawyea, Pennsylvania

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11:09 am PDT, Apr 18, Stacy Stiegleiter, Tennessee

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8:29 pm PDT, Apr 14, Name not displayed, California

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6:46 pm PDT, Apr 13, Kate Tildes, Rhode Island

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9:44 am PDT, Apr 12, Lauren Langan, Pennsylvania

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6:25 am PDT, Apr 12, Bill McGlone, Connecticut

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10:44 pm PDT, Apr 11, Cameron Dale, Alaska

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2:10 pm PDT, Apr 9, Natalie Swaim, Iowa

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6:40 am PDT, Apr 7, Dora Kassis, Greece

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5:34 am PDT, Apr 7, Nagia Pedotti, Greece

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2:40 pm PDT, Apr 6, Carla Cassia, California

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6:37 am PDT, Apr 5, Name not displayed, Colorado

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5:36 pm PDT, Apr 4, Name not displayed, Massachusetts
YOU'RE DESTROYING.

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8:01 pm PDT, Apr 3, Sarina Walczynski, Illinois
Not only are you killing people with your food, but your killing the environment with your waste.

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7:36 pm PDT, Apr 2, Emily Barre, Arkansas

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1:05 pm PDT, Apr 2, Name not displayed, Connecticut

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4:12 pm PDT, Apr 1, Elana Levine, California

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2:53 am PDT, Mar 30, Can Atik, Turkey

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9:38 pm PDT, Mar 29, Elizabeth Boggess, Indiana
PLEASE support a greener America by finding a creative alternative to shredded trees for wrapping! How Arcane!

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4:53 pm PDT, Mar 25, Rebecca Filbey, Colorado
Our comsumption of all natural resources is completley out of control. I beg you to make a difference, set a standard others might follow!!!

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3:47 pm PDT, Mar 24, Ashley Wainscott, Texas

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11:12 am PDT, Mar 24, Meghan Bundrock, Ohio
our disposable society needs to take a serious look at itself... and this is a great place to start.... STOP CREATING THIS NEEDLESS WASTE!!

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10:56 pm PDT, Mar 23, Gail Dair, Australia

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6:05 pm PDT, Mar 23, Evert Jan Klein Velderman, Netherlands

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8:03 pm PDT, Mar 22, James Bonney, Pennsylvania
REDUCE!

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6:28 pm PDT, Mar 22, INGRID PEETERS, Spain

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1:16 am PDT, Mar 22, Art Deco, Maine

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7:24 pm PDT, Mar 20, Catherine C, Canada

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7:01 pm PDT, Mar 20, Denise Dreyer, Pennsylvania

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4:36 pm PDT, Mar 20, Charles Mclachlan, United Kingdom

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10:58 am PDT, Mar 20, Emmie Forman, Washington

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2:32 pm PDT, Mar 19, Alison Lambert, Rhode Island

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8:00 am PDT, Mar 18, Sean Clayton, North Carolina

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11:27 pm PDT, Mar 17, Vivien De Boer-Harm, Belgium

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9:01 am PDT, Mar 17, Jessica Fowler, Georgia

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6:25 pm PDT, Mar 16, Lisa Vanname, New Jersey

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5:15 pm PDT, Mar 16, Madison Bingley, Canada

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5:32 pm PDT, Mar 14, Name not displayed, New York

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