Jo Lopez; Brandise DaneswichE Street Band guitarist “Little Steven” Van Zandt and Jackson Browne and are lending their support to an environmental campaign that calls for a boycott of all hotels owned by Marriott International. The boycott comes in protest of the company’s policy of using plastic containers for room service orders.
The initiative was launched by Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance that seeks to make the world free of plastic pollution and its negative impact on people, animals, the oceans, waterways and the environment in general.
“The last thing we need right now is more plastic waste,” says Van Zandt in a statement. “There is no longer any excuse — if there ever was — for businesses to sacrifice environmental responsibility for profit.”
Adds Browne, “We each have it in our power to support businesses that take care not to further degrade our environment, and to bring that considerable consumer power to bear in the fight for a sustainable future.”
He adds, “I’m happy to answer Stevie Van Zandt’s call for this boycott. I spend much of my year in hotel rooms, and it is absolutely my choice not to stay where they serve food in plastic.”
Meanwhile, Plastic Pollution Coalition co-founder Dianna Cohen declares, “The time is now for Marriott to reduce their plastic footprint on the earth and think ‘reusable’ instead of ‘disposable.”
In addition to Van Zandt and Browne, other celebrities who are members of the coalition include David Crosby, Linda Ronstadt, Bonnie Raitt, Bette Midler, Social Distortion, Dawes, Animal Collective, Steve Earle, Shawn Colvin, Wavy Gravy, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Maroon 5, Jonathan Richman, Loudon Wainwright III and Keb’ Mo’, as well as actors Rosanna Arquette, Ed Begley Jr., Jeff Bridges, Chevy Chase, Laura Dern, Fran Drescher, Danny Glover, Tim Robbins and Martin Sheen.
Visit PlasticPollutionCoalition.org for more information.
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