TELL SOFT DRINK COMPANIES: HELP THE OCEANS AND GIVE US REFILLABLE BOTTLES!
Join the #REFILLAGAIN movement!
We're demanding that major soft drink bottlers and companies including The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Danone, and the Dr Pepper Snapple Group give us the option to buy their product in a refillable bottle instead of a throwaway single-use plastic bottle.
Why? Up to 34 billion single-use plastic bottles end up in the ocean every year. They pollute our oceans and harm ocean creatures like sea turtles and octopuses. And recycling isn't working. Did you know that only 9% of the plastic waste ever generated has been recycled?
So, what's the solution? Refillable bottles! Because they are used 30 to 50 times they are an immediate, practical, and powerful way to eliminate single-use plastic bottles from your life and potentially billions of single-use bottles from our oceans right now. Increasing refillable bottles by just 10% could keep up to 7.6 billion plastic bottles out of the ocean each year.
And here's where we need your help. You probably can't easily purchase your favorite beverage in a refillable bottle right now because although they were once how drinks were commonly sold, too many companies replaced them with single-use plastic. But they can offer them again. In fact, as much as 25% of all the soft drinks sold around the world are in refillable bottles. We just need to let the companies know we want more of them everywhere!
With your help we can do something to help solve the problem of plastic bottles polluting our oceans. Sign the petition and ask leading soft drink companies to #REFILLAGAIN.
YOUR INFORMATION
Petition Text
My name is {user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}, and I, my friends and family – like so many others – have bought your products.
I am emailing today with Oceana to ask that your company increase the availability of refillable bottles in my country. I would like to buy and use refillable bottles, but they aren’t easy to find where I live. Right now, if I want to buy one of your products, too often these can only be found in a single-use bottle or can. Single-use plastic is harming our oceans and I want an alternative option.
Oceana estimated that up to 34 billion plastic bottles become ocean pollution every year. Plastic is everywhere in our oceans, from the sea surface to our beaches and coastline, to its deepest depths. Sea birds have been found dead, with entire plastic bottles inside of them. Sea turtles also eat or become entangled in plastic. This problem has become so big that a revolution in how drinks are packaged and sold is needed.
As one of the largest beverage or bottling companies in the world, I’m calling on you to help lead this change through prioritizing refillable bottles over single-use plastic. Please also be transparent and specific with your commitments and your progress towards meeting them so that others can learn from and replicate your efforts towards a more sustainable, waste-free world.
Please help protect our oceans and planet by giving your customers like me a refillable bottle choice.
Kind regards,
{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}