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December 17, 2020
THE Break Free From Plastic (BFFP) movement conducts an annual activity that involves counting and documenting the brands on plastic waste found in different locations across the globe. This "brand audit," BFFP claims, is a powerful tool for recording and tracking down the companies responsible for "polluting the planet" with plastic. Their annual report came out recently from the audit they did last September 21, 2019, on the occasion of World Clean Up Day.
The audit involved a total of 72,541 volunteers in 51countries who collected 476,423 pieces of plastic waste. Of those collected, 43% was marked with a clear consumer brand. The BFFP list of "Top Global Polluters" was determined primarily based on the number of countries where these companies' brands were found and the number of plastics collected per brand or manufacturer. Report can be viewed at breakfreefromplastic.org/globalbrandauditreport2020/.