Costco gives its consumers the opportunity to buy nearly everything they may need...with the caveat that they will bring home ample amounts of unnecessary plastic packaging. Tell Costco to take single-use plastics off its shelves. Add your name:
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Friend,

Costco gives its consumers the opportunity to buy nearly everything they may need...with the caveat that they will bring home ample amounts of unnecessary plastic packaging.

Plastic packaging is the single-largest contributor to our country's plastic pollution crisis, and this wholesale retailer isn't doing enough to reduce its plastic footprint, earning an 'F' for its excessive plastic use.[1]

If Costco takes action to reduce its use of plastic packaging, it would set an example for other stores to follow. Will you join us in calling on Costco to move beyond plastic?
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Nothing we use for a few minutes should pollute our environment and threaten public health for hundreds of years. Yet when we shop at Costco, we can't help but bring home a mountain of unwanted plastic packaging -- and more than 91% of plastic gets sent to a landfill or incinerated.[2,3]

Incinerating waste generates air pollution that includes heavy metals such as mercury, a neurotoxin that impairs brain function, as well as cancer-causing pollutants like dioxin, one of the most toxic substances known today.[4]

And when waste is landfilled, pollution from the landfills can seep into the environment and threaten drinking water supplies.[5]

But the threats don't stop there: Some waste ends up in the environment and is eventually carried into the ocean via stormwater runoff, littering and illegal dumping. An estimated 16.5 million tons of plastic ends up in the ocean every year, and that figure could grow sharply by 2040.[6]

Enough is enough.

Costco can reduce its plastic waste and even set a precedent for other wholesale stores by eliminating its use of single-use plastic packaging. Call on Costco today to take this next step.
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As a nation, we have all of the tools that we need to move beyond plastic, and Costco has the keys to that tool chest. By taking unnecessary plastic packaging off its shelves, it will reduce the amount of plastic in our communities and mitigate the harmful public health impacts that plastic pollution can have.

Friend, will you stand with us and tell Costco to take single-use plastic packaging off its shelves?
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Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. "2021 corporate plastic pollution scorecard," As You Sow, last accessed September 1, 2022.
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2. "2021 corporate plastic pollution scorecard," As You Sow, last accessed September 1, 2022.
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3. "Trash in America," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, September 30, 2021.
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4. "Trash in America," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, September 30, 2021.
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5. "Trash in America," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, September 30, 2021.
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6. "Trash in America," U.S. PIRG Education Fund, September 30, 2021.
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