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RELEASE: Investors Send Message to Kraft Foods on Recyclable Packaging – 29% Support for As You Sow Proposal

OAKLAND, CA – May 8, 2015 – Asserting that non-recyclable packaging is wasting valuable resources, a proposal to Kraft Foods Group from As You Sow received the support of 29.2% of shares voted at the … MORE >

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Kraft – Consumer Packaging – 2015

BE IT RESOLVED: Shareowners of Kraft Foods Group request that the board of directors issue a report at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, by October 1, 2015 assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use … MORE >

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Colgate-Palmolive Takes Firm Stance Toward All-Recyclable Packaging

GREENBIZ.COM – April 28, 2014 – A growing amount of packaging is made from flexible plastic laminates that cannot be conventionally recycled.

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Kraft Foods Group – Consumer Packaging – 2014

Shareowners of Kraft Foods Group request that the board of directors issue a report at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, by October 1, 2014 assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use non-recyclable brand packaging.

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Shareowners Warn Monsanto, Dow, Kraft and Coke on GMO Foods

GREENBIZ.COM – October 16, 2013 – Next month, voters in Washington will decide whether food companies doing business in the state will be required to label food products that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

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Kraft Foods – Consumer Packaging – 2012

In 2012, we filed a proposal asking Kraft Foods (now known as Mondelez International) to explore the feasibility of adopting an EPR policy for post-consumer product packaging. A quarter of investors supported our resolution, a … MORE >

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Coca‐Cola, Del Monte, Kraft Score Failing Grades in Safe Packaging Report

FAST COMPANY – Oct. 21, 2010 – BPA, a toxic compound found in everything from water bottles to store receipts, has increasingly become a thorn in the side of companies that make canned foods and … MORE >

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Coca-Cola, Del Monte, Kraft Score Failing Grades In Safe Packaging Report

FAST COMPANY – Apr. 21, 2010 – Bisphenol-A, commonly called BPA, is a chemical used in many plastics that in recent years has been found capable of leaching into liquids when used in liquid containers … MORE >

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