GREENPEACE activists scaled Unilever’s London headquarters on the eve of its profit announcement today.
The activists unfurled a banner reading “Profit Warning — Plastic Polluted Money” in protest against the company’s destructive use of environmentally harmful packaging.
The protesters then set up a pollution warning zone around the entrance to the headquarters, warning passers-by about the company’s overwhelming plastic pollution problem.
A previous Greenpeace investigation revealed the consumer goods giant as the biggest seller of some of the worst polluting packaging, multilayered plastic sachets. According to the report, Unilever sells 1,700 sachets every second.
The sachets are typically used to package products such as soap, shampoo and laundry detergent, and are virtually impossible to recycle.
Greenpeace say they exacerbate devastating floods when they enter the environment as they jam local waste systems and waterways.
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