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To: Nestlé and Mars
Stop using plastic pet food pouches
As owners of major pet food brands such as Pedigree Chum, Felix, Cesar, and Whiskas - please stop using plastic pouches!
Plastic pouches are one of the world's worst plastic polluters. Go back to selling pet food in tins and trays which are recyclable.
Why is this important?
In bid for cheaper shipping and customer convenience there has been a broad shift in the past decade from selling pet food in easily recyclable cans to pouches. But, these pouches are almost never recyclable because they are made from a thin layer of aluminium sandwiched between layers of plastic.
More than ten billion plastic-aluminium pouches, containing things like pet food and baby food are sold each year in the UK. Shockingly, less than one in 20,000 of these is recycled. The rest end up in landfill sites or they are incinerated.
If Mars and Nestlé went took the simple step of going back to selling their pet foods in recyclable tins and aluminium trays this would prevent millions of tonnes of plastic being ploughed into our earth.
