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Business Wars Daily

To Shrink Plastic Waste, Nestlé Turns Candy Wrappers into Origami

Business Wars Daily

Wondery

News, Daily News, Business News, Business

4.6716 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today is Wednesday, October 2, and we’re looking at Nestlé vs. Mars.

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I'm David Brown, and this is Business Wars Daily on this Wednesday, October 2nd.

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With miles and miles of plastic floating in our oceans,

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companies that use plastic for packaging are under fire to stop.

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Fast.

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That's especially true if you're the world's largest packaged food company.

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That would be Nestle, who we tend to think of as a candy bar maker. In fact, Nestle made more than $90 billion in revenue last year selling

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2,000 brands, everything from Alpo Dog Food to Hagenaz ice cream to Tombstone Frozen Pizza

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and hundreds of millions of containers of bottled water to boot. Last year, Nestle pledged to make

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all of its packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025, and it promised to get

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rid of all plastic straws in single-use plastic packaging. It can't do this fast enough. According to a

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