John,

Last year, Chick-fil-A served 2.1 billion customers.1 That's a lot of chicken sandwiches -- and a lot of plastic waste.

From plastic food containers to those iconic red-and-white foam cups, Chick-fil-A's continued use of wasteful plastic packaging is contributing to our growing plastic crisis. But if we can convince Chick-fil-A to move beyond plastic, it can help lead the fast food industry toward a more sustainable future.

Tell Chick-fil-A: It's time to move beyond plastic.

Our country is the world's largest polluter of plastic. Each year, we throw away 42 million metric tons of plastic waste.2 A lot of that plastic waste comes from things we only use once before throwing away, like the plastic packaging in your fast food order.

All that plastic has to go somewhere -- and in the U.S., it's most likely going to the landfill. Of all the plastic ever made, only 9% has been recycled. A little more than that has been incinerated. But the vast majority of it has been sent to landfills, where it'll sit for hundreds of years.3

This single-use mentality is a big reason why we've found ourselves in the midst of a global plastic pollution crisis -- but fortunately, it's one we can change. And that starts with the businesses that hand out single-use plastics to millions of people, day in and day out.

Add your name to tell Chick-fil-A to ditch single-use plastics.

Chick-fil-A is no small-time operation. It's now the third-largest fast food chain in the country by sales.4 And it's already indicated that it knows it needs to change.

The company has agreed to replace its iconic red-and-white plastic foam cup with a paper alternative -- but only in select locations.5 Some states have already banned polystyrene foam cups (nine and counting).

Chick-fil-A can do more. By committing to phasing out all plastic packaging in its stores in every state, the company can reduce the amount of plastic waste headed to landfills and pave the way for other fast food chains to follow suit.

But the leaders of Chick-fil-A won't act if they don't hear from you.

Tell Chick-fil-A to kick its foam cups to the curb and commit to plastic-free alternatives.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. "2022 Chick-fil-A Global Impact Report," Chick-fil-A, last accessed August 2, 2023.
2. Oliver Milman, "'Deluge of plastic waste': US is world's biggest plastic polluter," The Guardian, December 1, 2021.
3. "A Whopping 91 Percent of Plastic Isn't Recycled," National Geographic, December 20, 2018.
4. Kate Taylor, "Chick-fil-A is the third-largest fast-food chain in America, and that should terrify Wendy's and Burger King," Business Insider, May 14, 2020.
5. "Why did Chick-fil-A change its cup?," Chick-fil-A, last accessed August 2, 2023.

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