It was an agonizing death. Last week, a pregnant sperm whale washed ashore in Italy, her stomach jammed with 48 pounds of plastic trash.

She’d swallowed so much plastic she couldn’t digest her food, likely starving baby and mother to death.

Tragic scenes like this are all too common, and there’s a reason why: Gigantic corporations like Nestlé have based their entire business on manufacturing trash. A whopping 98 percent of Nestlé’s products are sold in single-use packaging.

With Nestle’s annual shareholder meeting TODAY, April 11, now is our best chance to pressure Nestlé to clean up its act.

Every minute, the equivalent of a truckload of plastic junk enters the world’s oceans, where it wreaks havoc on marine animals and habitats. As one of the world’s top three makers of plastic waste, Nestlé shoulders a massive chunk of the blame for this crisis.

Thankfully, people power is turning the tide on single-use plastics. Millions of people like you have already pushed some of the biggest food and supermarket corporations to renounce their dirty plastic habits. And it’s clear that Nestlé is getting nervous too: This January, the company finally acknowledged that recycling isn’t enough.

For your voice to have the biggest impact, Nestlé’s Annual General Meeting for shareholders is TODAY, April 11. This is the most important day of the year for Nestlé, and our biggest chance to stop it clogging the oceans with trash.

Time is running out! Sign the petition to Nestle today.

By taking action right now, you will help change history. Nestlé is such a powerful and influential corporation that commitments to phasing out single-use plastic will force a shift in the entire industry.

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