Global producer responsibility for plastic pollution

Author:

Cowger Win12ORCID,Willis Kathryn A.34ORCID,Bullock Sybil5ORCID,Conlon Katie6,Emmanuel Jorge7ORCID,Erdle Lisa M.8ORCID,Eriksen Marcus8ORCID,Farrelly Trisia A.9ORCID,Hardesty Britta Denise34ORCID,Kerge Kristiina10ORCID,Li Natalie11ORCID,Li Yedan11ORCID,Liebman Adam12ORCID,Tangri Neil1314ORCID,Thiel Martin151617ORCID,Villarrubia-Gómez Patricia18ORCID,Walker Tony R.19ORCID,Wang Mengjiao20ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research, Long Beach, CA 90803, USA.

2. University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92501, USA.

3. Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia.

4. CSIRO Environment, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia.

5. Break Free From Plastic, Quezon City 1100, Philippines.

6. School of Urban Studies, Portland State University, Portland, OR 97201, USA.

7. Institute of Environmental and Marine Sciences, Silliman University, Dumaguete City 6200, Philippines.

8. 5 Gyres Institute, Santa Monica, CA 90409, USA.

9. School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, Papaioea Palmerston North, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

10. Estonian University of Life Sciences, 51006 Tartu, Estonia.

11. Freelance Researcher.

12. Department of Sociology and Anthropology, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 46135, USA.

13. Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley, 2607 Hearst Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

14. Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Berkeley, CA 94704, USA.

15. MarineGEO Program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037-0028, USA.

16. Facultad Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Larrondo 1281, Coquimbo, Chile.

17. Center of Ecology and Sustainable Management of Oceanic Island (ESMOI), Coquimbo, Chile.

18. Stockholm University, Stockholm 114 19, Sweden.

19. School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS B3H 4R2, Canada.

20. Greenpeace Research Laboratories, School of Bioscience, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4RN, UK.

Abstract

Brand names can be used to hold plastic companies accountable for their items found polluting the environment. We used data from a 5-year (2018–2022) worldwide (84 countries) program to identify brands found on plastic items in the environment through 1576 audit events. We found that 50% of items were unbranded, calling for mandated producer reporting. The top five brands globally were The Coca-Cola Company (11%), PepsiCo (5%), Nestlé (3%), Danone (3%), and Altria (2%), accounting for 24% of the total branded count, and 56 companies accounted for more than 50%. There was a clear and strong log-log linear relationship production (%) = pollution (%) between companies’ annual production of plastic and their branded plastic pollution, with food and beverage companies being disproportionately large polluters. Phasing out single-use and short-lived plastic products by the largest polluters would greatly reduce global plastic pollution.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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