Plastic and Social Corporate Responsibility

1. Plastics & CSR
Presented by: Abigail Mast

2. Agenda
• Video on Plastic Waste
• Plastic Waste Facts
• Countries polluting the ocean the most
• Class activity
• Individual Waste Solutions
• Video 2
• Principle 8
• How businesses can improve plastic waste
• Culligan Water initiatives
• Kahoot!!!!

3. Video on Plastic Waste

4. Plastic Waste Facts
• In the North Pacific Ocean, there are 6x more plastic debris than plankton. They
are causing deaths to our marine animals who mistake them for food.
• We have an island in the middle of the North Pacific Gyre, the Great Pacific
Garbage Patch – which is mostly composed of plastic. It’s the size of India,
Europe and Mexico combined.
• 10% of the plastic we use yearly end up in the ocean. That’s equivalent to 700
billion plastic bottles!

5. • Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000 to 2,000 gallons
of gasoline. One ton of plastic is around 25,000 plastic bottles.
• The production of plastic uses around 8% of the world’s oil production.
• 90% of the trash floating in our oceans is made of plastic, around 46,000
pieces per square mile.
• Plastic is made from petroleum.
• Some of the components used to make plastic
like phthalates and bisphenol A are harmful to our health.

6. More Facts
• Since the 1950s, around 8.3
billion tons of plastic have
been produced worldwide.
• In some parts of the world,
using plastic is already illegal.
• 73% of beach litter worldwide
is plastic.
• A million plastic bottles are
bought around the world
every minute.
• Worldwide, about 2 million
plastic bags are used every
minute

7. More Facts
• 90% of plastic polluting our
oceans is carried by just 10
rivers.
• Plastic is killing more than 1.1
million seabirds and animals
every year.
• The average person eats
70,000 micro plastics each
year.
• The average time that a
plastic bag is used for is … 12
minutes.
• Over the past 50 years, world
plastic production has
doubled.

9. How can us as Individuals
improve plastic waste?

10. Solutions
1. Say No to Straws
- Americans throw out 500 million plastic straws every day. Opt for paper or
reusable metal straws—or skip them altogether.
2. Drink Smarter
- Nearly 1 million plastic beverage bottles are sold every minute around
the world. Sip from a reusable drinking bottle instead.
3. Pass On Plastic Bags
- Take reusable shopping bags with you to the store. You’ll help cut down
on the 1 trillion plastic bags that are used around the world each year.
4. Pay Attention to Packaging
- Encourage your parents to buy products such as bar soap and boxed laundry
detergent instead of versions of those items that come in plastic bottles

12. Principle 8
• Business is the only way to improve the environment according to the
book’s author… Who agrees? Disagrees?
• “…recycling aluminum cans in the company cafeteria and ceremonial tree
plantings are about as effective as bailing out the Titanic with teaspoons.”
(Hawken quoted in Chandler, p. 90)
• “While for-profit firms are the main cause of the environmental mess we
face; they are also the main for a solution.” (Chandler, p. 103)
• Supply chain management
• Ex. Outsiders in Deland, Bake Chop (restaurants in general), states making
laws outlawing single use plastic cups
• More than 50 countries have signed up to the UN Environmental Clean
Seas campaign
• I believe that governments should give financial incentives to encourage
companies to innovate

13. Principle 8 (cont.)
• In April, Swiss food giant Nestlé pledged to make all its plastic
packaging 100 per cent recyclable or reusable by 2025. It wants
to encourage the use of plastics that allow better recycling rates
and eliminate or change the complex combinations of plastic
that make recycling so difficult.
• Rival Unilever has also pledged to ensure that all of its plastic
packaging is fully reusable, recyclable or compostable by 2025.
They also aim to publish the full palette of the plastic materials
used in its packaging by 2020 to help create a protocol for the
industry.
• Around World Environment Day, Volvo said at least 25 per cent
of plastics used in its new car models from 2025 will be made
from recycled materials.

14. Principle 8 (cont.)
• Drinks giant Coca-Cola, which uses around 120 billion bottles a year,
launched its World Without Waste campaign in January, saying it
would recycle a used bottle or can for every new one sold by 2030. It
has also pledged to increase the amount of recycled content in plastic
bottles to 50 per cent by 2030, and is experimenting with different
collection techniques for recycling its products, including backing
government and industry efforts.
• McDonald’s has said it will make all its packaging from renewable and
recyclable sources by 2025.
• Dell aims to make its packaging 100 per cent waste-free by 2020,
using materials from sustainable sources. It already uses recycled
ocean plastics as well as other sustainable materials such as bamboo. It
wants all packaging to be ultimately suitable for home composting or
household collection.

15. Principle 8 (cont.)
• Danone’s Evian will make all its plastic bottles from recycled
plastic by 2025
• Procter & Gamble, which makes Head & Shoulders shampoo,
produced the first recyclable shampoo bottle, made with up to
25 per cent of recycled beach plastic last year.
• Proctor & Gamble has pledged to make all its packaging
recyclable or reusable by 2030.
• Swedish furniture chain IKEA has pledged to phase out single-
use plastic products from its stores and restaurants by 2020.
The firm says it is committed to phasing out oil-based plastics
and ensuring that all its plastic products are made using
recycled materials.

16. How can businesses improve plastic
waste?

17. Solutions
• Generate baseline data on plastic use and recycling and recovery rates.
• Innovate with alternative or zero packaging, new types of distribution and
consumer incentive schemes.
• Consider setting voluntary standards on plastic design, which can increase the
supply and commodity value of recyclable plastic material.
• Inspire governments, investors and SMEs to invest in waste reduction solutions
through commitments on plastic use.
• Create corporate green loans, bonds and other financing mechanisms to stimulate
the recycling industry.
• Conduct research on the upstream environmental impacts of producing the plastic
items that your company buys
• Develop a framework to prioritize plastic items for reuse and recycling
• Engage with stakeholders on how to reduce plastic waste

18. https://www.facebook.com/196585304020283/videos/17580624997
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20. Sales Initiatives
• Our sales managers promote alternatives to drinking bottled water
• We first try to sell customers on RO systems
• If they want a cheaper option, we do POU systems or deliver 5 gallons
• These are both better than plastic waste because the 5 gallons are interchangeable
and we reuse them to refill
• The POU systems require no 5 gallon; it filters the water through a machine
• The RO system is also the same concept, it delivers the cleanest water and
eliminates plastic waste
• When a sales representative goes on a sales call, they show the customer how
much money & plastic waste they will save if they switch to a filtration system
• It ends up saving the customer money and they feel better about a more
environmentally friendly option for water!

21. POU Cooler
5 Gallon Cooler
RO System

22. So
Remember…
.
And
Recycle!!

23. https://create.kahoot.it/share/plastic/e8a79d8f-059b-4ac1-
8c45-8d82b9f77b51

24. Citations
• https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/plastic-pollution-facts/
• https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/Plastic-Waste-Facts
• https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/what-are-
businesses-doing-turn-plastic-tap