To: Dave B. Dillion, Chair and CEO - The Kroger Company, Suzanne Lindsay, Giant Foods, Shoppers, Food Lion, Safeway Sustainability Division, Safeway Corporate Office, Karen Raines, Director of Corporate Sustainability - Costco Wholesale Corp...
Allow Us to Recycle Prescription Bottles
As a customer, I am writing to encourage your company to look into a recycling program for your prescription bottles. Prescription Bottles are generally made of #5 plastic, which most cities do not take by curbside recycling and it ends up in the garbage/landfill.
An effort like this would be HUGE and would reduce the waste of the thousands of prescriptions being picked-up daily and around 4 billion prescriptions filled in retail U.S. pharmacies per year. Plastic #5 is also known as PP-Polypropylene and is highly resistant to photo degradation and will not decay for at least a few hundred years.
I am encouraging your company to continue showing environmental leadership by launching a program where customers can bring their prescription bottles back for recycling.
Most Whole Foods have drop off bins for #5 plastic and are part of the the Gimme5 Program. You can learn more at: www.preserveproducts.com/recycle , so perhaps you could work with this organization for this initiative or come up with your own recycling program. Again, this will make an major impact and your company would be the first to lead this initiative.
I look forward to your response and thank you very much for your time.
My very best,
An effort like this would be HUGE and would reduce the waste of the thousands of prescriptions being picked-up daily and around 4 billion prescriptions filled in retail U.S. pharmacies per year. Plastic #5 is also known as PP-Polypropylene and is highly resistant to photo degradation and will not decay for at least a few hundred years.
I am encouraging your company to continue showing environmental leadership by launching a program where customers can bring their prescription bottles back for recycling.
Most Whole Foods have drop off bins for #5 plastic and are part of the the Gimme5 Program. You can learn more at: www.preserveproducts.com/recycle , so perhaps you could work with this organization for this initiative or come up with your own recycling program. Again, this will make an major impact and your company would be the first to lead this initiative.
I look forward to your response and thank you very much for your time.
My very best,
Why is this important?
Prescription Bottles are generally made of #5 plastic, which most cities do not take by curbside recycling and it ends up in the garbage/landfill. Join me in asking major companies to continue showing environmental leadership by launching a program where customers can bring their prescription bottles back for recycling. An effort like this would be HUGE and would reduce the waste of the thousands of prescriptions being picked-up daily and around 4 billion prescriptions filled in retail U.S. pharmacies per year. Plastic #5 is also known as PP-Polypropylene and is highly resistant to photo degradation and will not decay for at least a few hundred years.