*[Enwl-eng] What's Coming Up

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Taking on BlueTriton, Coca-Cola and more + your survey response!




                                Last month, we surveyed the Story of Stuff 
Community about the ways you see consumerism showing up in your lives and 
communities … and the ways you want to address them.

                                Thousands of you, from nearly 70 countries 
and territories answered the call, giving us detailed feedback and some 
incredible suggestions for ways our team can help you flex your advocacy 
muscles.

                                The gist: you’re not big fans of waste (no 
surprise there!), from plastic bottles to electronic gizmos to fast fashion, 
and you want to hold the companies that make all this trash to account.

                                You’re also remarkably solutions-focused, 
creative and ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work.

                                That’s why I’m so excited to fill you in on 
our plans for the coming months:

                                First, in mid-September we expect to bring 
your voice inside the California Water Board hearing over BlueTriton’s 
illegal removal of public water from the San Bernardino National Forest for 
bottling as Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water. We’ve already delivered more 
than 10,000 petition signatures from you and our partners at Eko demanding 
the Board approve a Cease & Desist Order to shut down BlueTriton’s theft of 
our water once and for all.

                                We’ve been at this campaign for more than 
six years now (wow!), through many ups and downs, and we’re excited that a 
big win appears to be imminent.

                                But we’re not resting on our laurels; far 
from it.

                                In early October, we’ll be launching Bring 
Back Refill, a campaign demanding that Coca-Cola, the world’s largest 
bottler, match its global commitment of 25% refillables by 2030 worldwide 
here in the United States, its largest market.

                                To date, Coke has been sketchy about its 
plans for refill in the United States, where more than 200 PET beverage 
bottles are wasted per capita each year, the highest rate in the world. So 
we’ll be holding their feet to the fire, ensuring that the company that 
created the refillable bottle brings it back to the country where it all 
started.

                                And yes, because we share your skepticism 
that a company like Coke will ever do the right thing, we’ll also be 
introducing legislation in several states that mandates across the board 
refill quotas for the whole beverage industry! Does your state need such a 
law?

                                Speaking of systemic change, we’ll also 
continue to push world leaders to address the plastics crisis with a binding 
global treaty during the next negotiating session in Nairobi in November.

                                In fact, just this week the United Nations 
released its “zero draft” of the treaty language, which proposes a 
progressive reduction of plastic production, the elimination of polymers and 
chemicals that harm human health, the elimination of particularly 
problematic and avoidable plastic packaging, a just transition for impacted 
communities and systems and targets for reduction and reuse.

                                Is it perfect? No. Will getting a binding 
and meaningful treaty across the line be hard? For sure. But don’t 
underestimate the power of people united to win big change.

                                Finally, as always, we’ll be asking you to 
support partners around the world at key moments in their own campaigns – to 
pass Right to Repair legislation, for instance, or shut down a waste 
incinerator – and we’ll continue to fund frontline leaders with our 
Grassroots Grants fund.

                                Thanks for sharing your ideas and insights 
with us. Now let’s get to work!

                                Sincerely,
                                Michael O’Heaney
                                Executive Director





































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                  From: Michael O'Heaney, The Story of Stuff Project
                  Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2023 11:20 AM
                  Subject: What's Coming Up






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