John,

When I walk into the grocery store, I'm frustrated to see corn, cucumbers and other foods unnecessarily wrapped in plastic. It's not only wasteful, it's absurd.

When it comes to reducing plastic pollution, a single shopper can only do so much. But Trader Joe's is one of the most popular grocery chains in the U.S., and has an opportunity to be a leader in plastic reduction.1

Tell Trader Joe's to phase out unnecessary plastic packaging today.

Every 16 hours, Americans throw out enough plastic to fill the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium, the largest NFL stadium in the U.S.2

Worse, most of that plastic doesn't get recycled. Most of it piles up in landfills, while some of it drifts through our streets, sticks to our sidewalks and clogs our waterways.3

Trader Joe's can help us turn the tide on our plastic problem. Tell Trader Joe's to cut down on plastic packaging today.

Trader Joe's has already shown they care about pollution by removing more than 12 million pounds of plastic packaging from its products. Now Trader Joe's has a chance to make a bigger impact.4

A commitment from Trader Joe's to further reduce single-use packaging in its stores would make a big difference in curbing the growing piles of waste in our parks, playgrounds and beaches.

You can help make it happen. Tell Trader Joe's to cut out unnecessary plastic packaging.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. Greg Petro, "How Trader Joe's Became a Grocery Cult," Forbes, April 11, 2025.
2. "Trash in America, 2021," U.S. PIRG Education Fund and Environment America Research & Policy Center, September 29, 2021.
3. Giorgia Guglielmi, "In the next 30 years, we'll make four times more plastic waste than we ever have," Science, July 19, 2017.
4. Abby Jackson, "Trader Joe's, the cult grocery chain, says it's making major changes to its in-store experience -- here's what to know," The Cool Down, January 30, 2024.

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