Today the Story of Stuff Project released a new report California’s Bottle Bill: The Path to Redemption, revealing a system failing Californians and the environment. A landmark environmental law, the state bottle bill has diverted billions of bottles from landfills, incinerators and the environment, but now finds itself languishing in serious decline. The report shares…
Thank you for helping to investigate California’s collapsing recycling system for bottles and cans! A successful deposit return system is built on a network of convenient return options. Many of the statewide retailers are required by law to redeem bottles and cans, but anecdotal evidence suggests this is not happening. Can you help us get…
Today, we’re doing something different for a nonprofit: we’re doing the giving. This Giving Tuesday, we’re inviting you to apply to our Grassroots Grants Program! We established the Grassroots Grants Program in 2017 to support small organizations and groups organizing against water privatization and plastic pollution. Since we launched, we have supported 70 grassroots groups…
St. James, Lousiana has garnered international attention this year, becoming one of the world’s highest-profile environmental site fights as the small community campaigns against giant corporations’ petrochemical developments. Two weeks ago, we released a new video featuring RISE St. James’ Sharon Lavigne, a tireless fighter for the rights of her community members in Louisiana’s Cancer…
Keep America Beautiful (KAB), a nonprofit organization working on behalf of corporate giants such as Coca-cola, PepsiCo and McDonald’s has released a new report revealing the findings of a decade of litter collection in the US. KAB launched in the 1950s and created the notorious ‘Crying Indian’ PSA, a public relations effort to redirect the…
Years Long Water Bottling Controversy Centers on Arrowhead Brand’s Namesake Spring Complex — Company Given 20 Days to Respond Contact: Michael O’Heaney, Executive Director(510) 684-6417, [email protected] CALIFORNIA – Today, California’s State Water Resources Control Board issued an updated Report of Investigation and draft Cease & Desist Order finding that Nestle Waters North America, now Blue Triton…
Nestlé Waters Betrays Communities, Ducks Environmental Commitments in Sale of Portfolio of Bottled Water Brands Contact: Michael O’Heaney, Executive Director(510) 684-6417, [email protected] Berkeley, CA — Nestlé Waters’ $4 billion sale of the country’s largest portfolio of bottled water brands to two private equity firms spells trouble for communities and ecosystems already feeling the strain of that…
Statement by U.S. and Canadian Water Protectors on the Proposed Sale of Nestlé’s Water Bottling Business to Private Equity Firm One Rock Capital February 2021 — Nestlé, the world’s largest corporate water bottler, is planning to sell its North American bulk bottled water business, which operates the brands Arrowhead, Poland Spring, Zephyrhills, Pure Life, Ice…
About This Campaign For decades, Nestlé Waters — the world’s largest water bottler — has bought up access to public water across North America to turn our most precious public resource into a private commodity. Paying next to nothing in royalties, Nestlé makes billions of dollars a year selling our water. Over recent years, The…
On my sister’s fifth birthday my mother threw a fabulous Ariel themed party. There was a mermaid-shaped cake, face-painting, and to top it all off she sent the guests home with gift bags filled with blue glitter meant to mimic the ocean. Almost exactly sixteen years later I learned the unfortunate irony of the blue…
