Friend,

Everyone's morning routine is a little different, whether you choose a bowl of cereal, a granola bar to eat on the go, or a perfectly-portioned yogurt. Whatever you enjoy for breakfast, there's a good chance that it comes with single-use plastic packaging.

From crinkly granola bar wrappers to plastic yogurt cups to flimsy plastic bags inside our cereal boxes, we end up with a bunch of plastic trash that we can't recycle. We shouldn't have to shoulder the burden of all this excess plastic packaging.

That's why PIRG is calling on major corporations to reduce single-use plastic packaging.

Tell General Mills to reduce its plastic packaging.

At the grocery store, shelves are stocked with favorite brands owned by General Mills, including Cheerios, Yoplait, Betty Crocker and Nature Valley. Wrapped in plastic, our groceries are contributing to the piles of plastic being dumped in landfills or into the environment.1

Americans throw away enough plastic to fill the largest football stadium in the country every single day.2 This pile of plastic trash persists for hundreds of years, and it just keeps growing and growing.

Digging our way out of this infinite plastic pit requires companies to step up and stop making so much plastic in the first place.

Other companies have made commitments to reduce single-use plastic packaging. And just last month, a majority of shareholders in General Mills voted for a resolution urging the company to reduce plastic use and waste.3

To convince the company to take meaningful actions to reduce plastic waste, they need to hear from the public. If enough of their customers demand action, General Mills could be compelled to act.

Urge General Mills to use less single-use plastic packaging.

Thank you,

Faye Park
President

1. "Making food the world loves," General Mills, last accessed October 10, 2022.
2. Adrian Pforzheimer and Alex Truelove, "Trash in America," PIRG, September 28, 2021.
3. Steve Blackledge and Matt Casale, "Victory! Shareholders tell General Mills to reduce plastic packaging use," PIRG, September 27, 2022.

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