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Mondelez-Recyclable Packaging-Resolution-2018
BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Shareowners of Mondelēz International request the Board to issue a report at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use non-recyclable brand packaging.
Mondelez-Recyclable-Packaging-2017
RESOLVED: Shareowners of Mondelēz International request the Board to issue a report at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use non-recyclable brand packaging.
RELEASE: Shareholders ask Mondelēz to Address Health Hazards of Nanomaterials in Foods; Mondelēz Blocks As You Sow Proposal
AS YOU SOW RELEASE – March 14, 2016 – Mondelēz International successfully blocked shareholders from voting on a proposal, submitted by shareholder advocacy group As You Sow, asking the company to assess the risks of … MORE
Mondelez International – Consumer Packaging – 2016
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareowners of Mondelez International request the Board to issue a report at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, by October 1, 2016 assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use non-recyclable brand packaging.
Mondelez International – Nanomaterials – 2016
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareholders request the Board publish, by October 2016, at reasonable cost and excluding proprietary information, a report on Mondelez’ use of nanomaterials, including describing the products or packaging that currently contain nanoparticles, … MORE
Mondelez – Consumer Packaging – 2015
BE IT RESOLVED: Shareowners of Mondelez International request the Board to issue a report, at reasonable cost, omitting confidential information, by October 1, 2015, assessing the environmental impacts of continuing to use non-recyclable brand packaging.
Mondelez Asked to Ban Unrecyclable Packaging
ENVIRONMENTAL LEADER – May 23, 2014 – A proposal to Mondelez International from As You Sow asking the snack food company to phase out unrecyclable packaging received 28.4 percent shareholder support representing $11.8 billion worth … MORE
Mondelez International – Consumer Packaging – 2014
Shareowners of Mondelez International request the Board to 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.
Mondelez – Consumer Packaging – 2013
Product packaging is a major source of waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and a significant consumer of natural resources and energy. More than half of U.S. product packaging is discarded in landfills or burned … MORE
This Common-Sense Change Makes Good Business Strategy
THE MOTLEY FOOL – “Going green” is a popular strategic destination these days. However, it’s one thing to rejoice that you’ve decided to start that journey, and another to actually get there
RELEASE: $11.4 Billion in Recyclable Materials Landfilled Every Year, New Report Finds
As You Sow Press Release
RELEASE: Shareholders Ask Kraft Foods to Increase Recycling, Reduce Carbon Pollution, and Save Millions with Better Packaging
As You Sow Press Release
Why is America Throwing Away $11.4 Billion a Year?
Press Coverage
Mondelēz International
Asserting that unrecyclable packaging wastes resources and contributes to the growing pollution of world oceans, our 2014 shareholder resolution asking Mondelez International to assess the risks on unrecyclable brand packaging received 28.4% shareholder support representing … MORE
Slipping Through the Cracks: An Issue Brief on Nanomaterials in Foods
Slipping Through the Cracks is designed to inform companies, investors, and consumers about the emerging use of engineered nanomaterials in food and food related products. It highlights the potential risks of nanotechnology for companies who are knowingly or unknowingly using it in their products and for public health. MORE
Some Kraft Foods Shareholders Want Company to Increase Recycling
Press Coverage
Shareholders Ask Kraft Foods to Increase Recycling
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION – May 25, 2012 – Shareholders asked Kraft Foods at the annual meeting to take responsibility for post-consumer packaging, which will divert millions of tons of recyclables from landfills.
RELEASE: Nanotechnology in Food: In the Absence of Regulations, Nonprofit Releases New Framework for Companies to Evaluate Safety
AS YOU SOW PRESS RELEASE – December 6, 2011 – A first‐of‐its‐kind framework released today offers recommendations to food and food packaging companies on how to identify and evaluate nanomaterials in products.
Engagement Seeks to Increase Recycling of Consumer Products and Packaging
SOCIAL FUNDS – April 15, 2011 – As You Sow wins commitments from three major bottlers to adopt Extended Producer Responsibility policies, and expands its engagement to include other major consumer product companies.
Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPA
This report by Green Century and As You Sow builds on the first edition of Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, which ranked food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. In this edition, the number of companies analyzed has expanded to include major U.S. retail companies that sell private-label canned products. MORE
Seeking Safer Packaging: Ranking Packaged Food Companies on BPA
Seeking Safer Packaging, published in April 2009, ranks food and beverage companies on their efforts to address BPA in their product packaging. Consumers, the media, and public officials alike are becoming increasingly concerned about bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine-disrupting chemical used in hard clear plastic and can linings.
Risky Business: Financial Risks that Genetically Engineered Foods Pose to Kraft Foods, Inc. and Shareholders
The controversy over genetically modified food has the potential to result in large-scale market and consumer backlash, which together pose material risks for investors of companies using GMOs. These material risks include the potential for … MORE
