A day before Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting, around hundred activists belonging to the global #breakfreefromplastic movement trooped to Nestlé’s Philippine headquarters to demand accountability for their role in abetting the country’s plastic pollution crisis.
Accompanied by four higantes carrying a serpent-like plastic monster, the groups delivered a demand letter and “invoice from the Filipino people” outlining the costs of Nestlé’s single-use plastic packaging to human health impacts, environmental pollution, death of wildlife, damage to livelihoods and businesses, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste management costs.