“We’re grateful they’re making these commitments, but they’re in a position to make an even bigger impact if they actually implement them and if they implement them sooner than many of the time frames they’re committing to,” she said. “They get a lot of attention for announcing the commitments, and then it’s often left to the advocacy groups and watchdog groups to actually follow up to make sure they’re even doing any of it and what the results are.”
Conservation organizations, including nonprofit Oceana, are targeting Amazon to cut its plastic waste. Christy Leavitt, Oceana’s plastics campaign director, said it’s pressing the e-commerce giant to allow customers to choose plastic-free packaging. This follows the company’s May annual general meeting during which 35.5 percent of shareholders voted in support of a resolution from As You Sow to require a report on its use of single-use plastics.
While the measure failed, it underscores how shareholder advocacy groups and others are upping the ante for investors to support environmental, social and governance resolutions, she added.
“Until consumers are given a lot of plastic-free choices, companies will be asked to do more to reduce their plastic footprint, and I’m hopeful that with that sustained pressure from consumers, from shareholder resolutions and activist organizations, the companies will work to reduce their plastic pollution,” Leavitt said in an interview. “And if not, we’ll have some of these laws that will require them to reduce their production of single-use plastic.”
Legislation to foster reductions in plastic use at the state level has been picking up steam this year with renewed interest after a slowdown in 2020, Leavitt and Cohen said. Earlier this month, the California Legislature unanimously passed AB 962, a bill that paves the way for the state to reuse glass bottles by removing a recycling requirement that requires single-use glass bottles to be crushed for recycling in order to flow through the state’s beverage container redemption program. Washington, Virginia and Colorado have also passed related policies to reduce single-use plastic this year.
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