U.S. PIRG 2025 End of Fiscal Year Drive

John,

Whole Foods was one of the first companies to announce major plastic reduction goals -- but the shelves of its stores are still packed with plastic packaging.1

Companies need to do better.

Customers want sustainable choices when we shop, not endless piles of plastic that are doomed to sit in a landfill or become pollution.

This summer, we're kicking our campaigns to urge Whole Foods and other retailers to cut wasteful plastic into the next gear. Will you help make it happen, John?

Donate to our 2025 End of Fiscal Year Drive before June 30 to help us meet our $25,000 goal and build a future beyond plastic.

Less than 10% of plastic is ever recycled. We need to use less plastic -- and that includes less plastic packaging on store shelves. Together, we can urge companies to use less plastic and build a more sustainable future. Donate

Plastic pollution is a big problem -- but PIRG has a plan to make effective, common-sense solutions a reality.

It starts on store shelves, and not just at Whole Foods. We're calling on companies from Trader Joe's to Costco to cut back on wasteful plastic packaging. We've even helped convince Whole Foods' parent company Amazon to reduce some of the single-use packaging in its shipments.3

There's still so much more work to do, but we're making progress.

Our work to move our country beyond plastic doesn't stop with corporations. It continues in cities and states across the nation. Thanks in part to our work to phase out wasteful plastic, one-third of Americans live in a state with restrictions on at least one form of single-use plastic.4

Will you help keep our work going strong?

Support our 2025 End of Fiscal Year Drive with a gift today.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Saul Eblein, "Whole Foods lags in reducing plastic pollution, report says," The Hill, March 2, 2023.
2. "The Whole Foods Plastic Problem," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, March 2, 2023.
3. "Amazon announces its largest reduction in plastic packaging in North America to date," Amazon, June 20, 2024.
4. "Reducing plastic waste in the states," PIRG, last accessed June 6, 2025.

Your donation will power our dedicated staff of organizers, policy experts and attorneys who drive all of our campaigns in the public interest, from banning toxic pesticides and moving us beyond plastic, to saving our antibiotics and being your consumer watchdog, to protecting our environment and our democracy. None of our work would be possible without the support of people just like you.


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