29 Nov 2023 --- Unilever sells roughly 1,700 single-use plastic sachets every second, according to new findings by Greenpeace. The quantity is on course to reach 53 billion sachets by the end of this year, often sold in vulnerable nations where consumers rely on piecemeal products and waste management infrastructure is insufficient at best. Greenpeace’s report, titled “Uncovered: Unilever’s role in the global plastics crisis and its power to solve it,” shows that sachets — small throwaway plastic packets of consumer products — have increasingly been marketed to countries in the Global South by large corporations like Unilever.
