Hey Snapple, Go Back to the Original Glass Bottle!

  • par: Andrew M
  • destinataire: The Dr Pepper Snapple Group
Last week, on a hot spring California day I stopped by a local convenience store to grab something refreshing. There were the energy drinks with their strange flavors and colors, the iced coffees packed with caffeine, and rows and rows of iced teas. When I went to grab a peach Snapple, I paused because I couldn't believe my eyes. There on the label in large white letters it said: "New Plastic Bottle."

Was Snapple actually pitching their new plastic bottle as a plus for consumers?

Never mind the fact that customers loved the glass bottle. Plastic is one of the biggest dangers to the environment we face at the moment. Even worse, beverage companies have long been the blame for the barrage of plastic single-use bottles that line our supermarket aisles. Snapple's parent company Dr Pepper Snapple Group — one of the largest beverage companies in the U.S. — is well aware of the damage plastic bottles are doing to our lands and seas.

And yet they chose to go from glass, a much more eco-conscious bottling choice, to plastic.

The very same plastic that, by 2050, will occupy more space in the ocean than fish. The same plastic that kills thousands of animals every year and clogs our waterways.

According to a news article on the new plastic bottles, one of the main reasons they switched from glass to plastic was to "provide consumers with a convenient, lighter weight container they could enjoy on the go."

But there is nothing convenient about living on a planet that is being choked by plastic. The Dr Pepper Snapple Group should be ashamed of itself for being part of the problem.

Please sign the petition and ask Snapple to be part of the solution and go back to the glass bottles.
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