日本正在拋棄塑料包裝，改用可以折疊成折紙的紙

日本正在拋棄塑料包裝，改用可以折疊成折紙的紙

Greenwashing. Have you ever heard of it? It is essentially the false impression that a company or its products are more environmentally sound than they really are. For a company like Nestlé, one of the world’s biggest producers of plastic trash, it has become an essential marketing tool.

綠色清洗你聽說過嗎?它本質上是一種錯誤的印象，認為一家公司或其產品比實際情況更環(huán)保。對于雀巢這樣一家全球最大的塑料垃圾生產商來說，它已經成為一個必不可少的營銷工具。

The company has been at the center of so many scandals over the years and have repeatedly shown that they have incredibly low ethical standards and little interest in social responsibility. For these reasons, marketing stunts like these, designed to go ‘viral’ and get people talking about them in a positive light, must be taken with a pinch of salt.

多年來，該公司一直處于眾多丑聞的中心，并一再表明，他們的道德標準低得令人難以置信，對社會責任幾乎沒有興趣。出于這些原因，像這樣的營銷噱頭，旨在“病毒式傳播”，并讓人們以積極的態(tài)度談論它們，必須持保留態(tài)度。

Nestlé Japan has gotten all the buzz recently by replacing its glossy plastic wrappers with more environmentally- friendly paper ones. Added to this are bonus origami instructions, so you can create an iconic paper crane design instead of throwing your waste away.

最近，雀巢日本公司(Nestle Japan)將其光滑的塑料包裝紙換成了更環(huán)保的紙制包裝紙，引起了所有人的關注。此外還有額外的折紙指導，這樣你就可以創(chuàng)建一個標志性的紙鶴設計，而不是扔掉你的垃圾。

The world’s biggest food company has vowed to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025, after facing increasing pressure from environmental groups.

世界最大的食品公司在面臨來自環(huán)保組織越來越大的壓力后，承諾到2025年100%實現(xiàn)包裝的可回收或可重復使用。

Greenpeace Plastics Campaigner Kate Melges says that “Nestlé has created a monster by producing endless quantities of throwaway plastics that persist in our environment for lifetimes.”

綠色和平組織的塑料活動家Kate Melges說:“雀巢制造了一個怪物，生產了無數(shù)的一次性塑料，這些塑料可以在我們的環(huán)境中生存一輩子。”

The NGO is running a campaign called ?#‎PlasticMonster,? which aims to stop the production of single-use plastics. “Over 90% of the plastic ever produced has not been recycled, yet companies are set to dramatically increase the production of plastic packaging over the next decade,” they write.

非政府組織運行活動稱為?#‎PlasticMonster,?旨在停止生產一次性塑料。他們寫道:“過去生產的90%以上的塑料都沒有回收利用，但未來十年，企業(yè)將大幅增加塑料包裝的產量。”

“People living along rivers and coastlines in Southeast Asia and in other communities around the world are among the most impacted by plastic pollution. Even though excessive production of single-use plastic for packaging is the real cause, these communities are often blamed for this crisis.”

“生活在東南亞和世界其他地區(qū)的河流和海岸線附近的人們受到塑料污染的影響最大。盡管過度生產一次性包裝塑料是真正的原因，但這些社區(qū)經常被指責造成了這場危機。”

“Companies like Nestlé are the ones actually responsible for the plastic monster that is destroying our planet. But they also have the power to slay this monster by reducing the amount of single-use plastic produced.”

“實際上，像雀巢這樣的公司應該對正在毀滅我們星球的塑料怪獸負責。但是他們也有能力通過減少一次性塑料的生產來殺死這個怪物。”

Nestlé has estimated that the new initiative will help to reduce the brand’s plastic waste by approximately 380 tonnes per year. However, some people believe that this is just nowhere near enough.

雀巢估計，這項新舉措將幫助該品牌每年減少約380噸塑料垃圾。然而，一些人認為這遠遠不夠。

“Nestlé’s statement on plastic packaging includes more of the same greenwashing baby steps to tackle a crisis it helped to create,” Greenpeace Oceans Campaigner Graham Forbes says. “It will not actually move the needle toward the reduction of single-use plastics in a meaningful way, and sets an incredibly low standard as the largest food and beverage company in the world. The statement is full of ambiguous or nonexistent targets, relies on ‘ambitions’ to do better, and puts the responsibility on consumers rather than the company to clean up its own plastic pollution.”

綠色和平海洋運動人士格雷厄姆•福布斯表示:“雀巢在塑料包裝方面的聲明，更多地采用了嬰兒時期的環(huán)保措施，以應對它幫助制造的危機。”“它實際上不會以一種有意義的方式推動一次性塑料的減少，而且作為世界上最大的食品和飲料公司，它設定的標準低得令人難以置信。”聲明中充滿了模棱兩可或根本不存在的目標，依靠的是‘雄心壯志’做得更好，并把清理自身塑料污染的責任推給了消費者，而不是公司。”

I guess we can only hope that Nestlé makes good on its pledge and continues to reduce its plastic waste impact. Unfortunately, their track record of following through on sustainability promises doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.

我想我們只能希望雀巢能兌現(xiàn)承諾，繼續(xù)減少塑料垃圾的影響。不幸的是，他們兌現(xiàn)可持續(xù)發(fā)展承諾的記錄并不能真正激發(fā)人們的信心。

Image credits: Nestlé Japan