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Danone sued over plastic air pollution



Three environmental teams – ClientEarth, Surfrider Basis Europe and Zero Waste France – are submitting a lawsuit towards Danone over its international plastic air pollution at France’s excessive court docket, the Paris Tribunal Judiciaire.

France’s ‘Obligation of Vigilance’ legislation calls for that firms over a sure dimension assess and stop the impacts their operations have on the surroundings and human rights, through a ‘vigilance plan’.

The teams argue that Danone, whose annual gross sales prime greater than €24bn, will not be doing sufficient to cut back its plastic footprint and failing to stay as much as its duties below the legislation.

ClientEarth plastics lawyer Rosa Pritchard stated: “Danone is trudging forward and not using a critical plan to take care of plastics, regardless of clear concern from local weather and well being specialists and shoppers, and a authorized obligation to resist the difficulty.

“It continues to depend on single-use plastic packaging within the hopes that recycling will miraculously take care of the flood of plastics it places available on the market. However recycling is a restricted answer as solely 9% of plastics ever made have been recycled. It’s unrealistic for meals giants like Danone to fake recycling is the silver bullet.

“It’s 2023 and excessive time Danone began implementing correct options corresponding to refill and reuse past a couple of pilots to provide shoppers actual entry to a sustainable mannequin. It must deplastify now.”

Options for decreasing plastic within the meals sector embrace eliminating pointless packaging, rethinking product design and shifting to reusable/refillable packaging fashions.

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