{"id":3369,"date":"2023-02-27T01:02:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/pennsylvania\/articles\/costco-should-take-single-use-plastic-packaging-off-its-shelves\/"},"modified":"2023-02-27T01:04:45","modified_gmt":"2023-02-27T06:04:45","slug":"costco-should-take-single-use-plastic-packaging-off-its-shelves","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/pennsylvania\/articles\/costco-should-take-single-use-plastic-packaging-off-its-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Costco should take single-use plastic packaging off its shelves"},"featured_media":43381,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":false,"_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":""},"campaign_tax":[167],"display_option":[],"issue_tax":[],"person_tax":[],"region_tax":[],"state":[2],"topic_tax":[142],"class_list":["post-3369","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"details":{"helper_taxonomies":{"topics":[142],"collection":false,"press_type":false,"person_type":false,"resource_type":false,"event_type":false,"campaigns":167,"department":false,"level":false,"states":[2],"act_option":false,"display_option":false,"primary":{"topic":142}},"featured_image":43381,"caption_override":"","excerpt":"Costco gives its customers the opportunity to buy nearly everything they may need \u2026 with the caveat that they will bring home ample amounts of unnecessary plastic packaging.","updated_on":null,"sidebar_action":"","hide_hero_image":false,"sidebar_action_query_string":""},"helper_people_group":{"title":"Authors","entities":[{"type":"dynamic","dynamic_person":{"site":4,"people":"203"},"information":{"name":"","image":null,"role":"","biography":"","contact":{"twitter":"","facebook":"","email":"","phone":""}}}]},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costco is one of America's most popular places to shop, which means that it could have a profound impact if it took single-use plastic packaging off its shelves.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>But the company received an <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asyousow.org\/reports\/plastic-pollution-scorecard-2021\"><b>\u201cF\u201d<\/b><\/a><b> for its failure to reduce single-use plastic packaging in stores, according to a report from As You Sow.<\/b>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing we use for a few minutes should threaten our health and pollute our future for hundreds of years. Costco's plastic bags, lids and bottles are unnecessarily contributing to the amount of plastic pollution piling up in landfills and littering our streets and waterways \u2014 so we're calling on Costco to commit to reducing its single-use plastic packaging.<\/span>\r\n<h3><strong>How Costco\u2019s attachment to single-use plastic packaging is harming our communities<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we shop at Costco, we can't help but bring home a mountain of unwanted plastic packaging.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only is plastic packaging the largest contributor to our plastic waste crisis, but there are a whole host of other public health and environmental consequences that come with excessive plastic pollution \u2014 water pollution, air pollution, polluted natural spaces and more.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.pirg-test.com\/edfund\/resources\/trash-in-america-2\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">91%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of plastic gets sent to a landfill or incinerated. Incinerating waste generates air pollution that includes heavy metals such as mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain function, as well as cancer-causing pollutants like dioxin, one of the most toxic substances known today.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And when waste is landfilled, pollution from the landfills can seep into the environment and threaten drinking water supplies.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the threats don't stop there: Some waste ends up in the environment and is eventually carried into the ocean via stormwater runoff, littering and illegal dumping. An estimated 16.5 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year, and that figure could grow sharply by 2040.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<b>Enough is enough. Costco can reduce its plastic waste and even set a precedent for other wholesale stores by eliminating its use of single-use plastic packaging.<\/b>\r\n<h3><strong>How Costco can help turn the tide on plastic pollution<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It's time for us to move beyond plastic by stopping the use of plastics we truly don't need. Plastic packaging is a great example of this. It's used for only a moment, and viable alternatives exist.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a nation, we have all of the tools that we need to move beyond plastic, and Costco has the keys to that tool chest. By taking unnecessary plastic packaging off its shelves, it will reduce the amount of plastic in our communities and mitigate the harmful public health impacts that plastic pollution can have.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plus, as we\u2019ve seen with other wasteful single-use items such as plastic grocery bags, action from a major industry player such as Costco can set an important example for others in the industry to follow.<\/span>","":null}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Costco should take single-use plastic packaging off its shelves<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Costco gives its customers the opportunity to buy nearly everything they may need \u2026 with the caveat that they will bring home ample amounts of unnecessary plastic packaging.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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