To: Doug McMillon, CEO
Ask Walmart To Stop Using Plastic Shopping Bags And Save Our Oceans
Walmart, please stop using plastic shopping bags in your stores, or at least give shoppers the option of using paper. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is now twice the size of Texas, and growing larger every day. The plastic pollution in the oceans is reaching the critical stage, and we need the help of you, the nation's largest retailer, to lead the way in reducing plastic pollution.
Why is this important?
Plastic kills over one million sea birds and one hundred thousand marine animals are killed by plastic pollution every year, and that is just what is found in fishing nets. Divers are finding virtual forests of plastic in the oceans, throughout the world. Shopping bags take ten to one thousand years to decompose, and when they do, they leave toxic sludge in the soil and oceans. The time is now to reduce plastic waste, because there is no tomorrow!