About Us
We believe chocolate should help everyone thrive.
That's why our chocolate is more than sustainable.
It's regenerative.
Here at Alter Eco, we take our environmental impact seriously. That’s why we took a closer look at how increased plastic usage is affecting our health and our planet.
The problem with plastic is it never goes away, and as we use it increasingly in our lives, it is just piling up. Nearly half of all plastic ever manufactured has been made since 2000. By 2015, the world produced 7.8 billion tons of plastic[1] - more than one ton of plastic for every person alive today.
Even though some plastic is recyclable, that does not mean it’s actually getting recycled! Less than a fifth of all plastic is recycled globally [2], and that number is even lower - just 9% - in the US.
Inevitably, some of this plastic ends up outside of waste management facilities and into our environment, where it photodegrades into tinier and tinier pieces, but never goes away.
In the marine environment, plastic is killing more than 1.1 million seabirds and animals every year.[3] And it’s affecting humans too. Research has found that we are ingesting more microplastics than we ever knew before -- at least 70,000 microplastics each year.[4]
As a packaged food company, we definitely know that plastic is hard to avoid. However, we have committed as a company to 100% recyclable or compostable plastic in all our products by 2020. And we are already part of the way there, thanks to our innovative compostable truffle wrappers and FSC certified paper packaging for our chocolate bars.
This month, we are taking it a step further and making it PERSONAL. Our office is taking on the Plastic Free July challenge so we can be more conscious of single-use items and try to cut back when possible. Reduce is the most important of the 3 R’s!
Nobody is perfect, but we believe that individual choice and small changes add up to a big collective impact. Here are a few ways you can scale back your plastic usage in your daily life:
So we hope you’ll join the Alter Eco team in the Plastic Free July challenge this month, and continue reducing single use plastics in your everyday life! Tag us on Instagram with your small changes @alterecosf
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[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/plastics-facts-infographics-ocean-pollution/
[2] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/plastics-facts-infographics-ocean-pollution/
[3] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/plastics-facts-infographics-ocean-pollution/
We believe chocolate should help everyone thrive.
That's why our chocolate is more than sustainable.
It's regenerative.