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Check out the new campaign website: www.nofreerefills.org!
Will you help us kick off the national Fast Food Packaging Campaign?
The Southern US is the largest paper producing region in the world.
Packaging is the #1 paper product from our forests, led by the fast
food industry.
Will you send a message to the fast food CEO's having the biggest impact on our forests? Click here to send your message.
While
you're there you can let the CEO's know that they should a) use more
post-consumer recycled paper; b) use less; and c) stop using paper for
packaging from endangered forests.
We have been
on the road the last couple of weeks holding press conferences and
community meetings to let kickoff the campaign. We've met some great
people, gotten some good media, taken some great photos and videos, and
worked with awesome volunteers. No matter where we are, one thing
always rings true-Southern forests are too important to be wasted for
fast food packaging.
You can tell the biggest Fast Food chains to stop buying their
packaging from Southern forests. We identified the top offenders and
they are... Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silvers, Pizza Hut, A&W,
McDonalds, Wendy's, Quiznos, Jack in the Box, and Bojangles.
Tell the 11 Fast Food Junky CEO's to stop trashing Southern forests for
chicken buckets, burger boxes and to-go containers.
Click here to send your message today!
While you're there you can check out the new website and find more info
about the campaign, including a downloadable report linking the top
offenders to Southern forest destruction at www.nofreerefills.org.
Why fast food? Because Southern forests are too important to be wasted for fast food packaging.
 · Fast Food Chains are buying packaging from Southern forests
· 15% of landfill waste is fast food packaging
· The average American throws out 300 lbs. of packaging waste every year
Our
fast food lifestyle is burying us in an avalanche of excessive
packaging and waste. Every year millions of pounds of food packaging
waste litter our roadways, clog our landfills and spoil our quality of
life.
Southern forests, the jewel of the
American landscape, are being destroyed to bring you fried chicken,
burgers and fries, and super-sized convenience in a glut of wrappers,
boxes and cups. Simple choices and creative solutions can reduce the
excess and destruction while still allowing us to enjoy the level of
convenience we have come to expect.
Join Dogwood Alliance in challenging corporations to change their
habits. Our forests are too important to be wasted for disposable
packaging. With nearly 100 paper packaging mills in the South, the
packaging decisions of these corporations have a tremendous impact on
our forests.
Take action today!
http://www.democracyinaction.org/da/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24343&t=nofreerefillsAction.dwt
You can also check out the converage on Mongaby: http://news.mongabay.com/2008/0428-davis_nofreerefills.html
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