Disgusting Danone Litter!
By svacher on June 3, 2005 - 1:11am
Today I was walking down Granville St (at the corner of Granville and Robson) and saw a trash can that was not only filled to the brim with
little purple plastic bottles, but almost 30 of them were strewn below
the trash can and rolling every which way.
As I walked up the street to the corner of Granville + Georgia, I saw the culprits: Apparently the Danone company put out a promotion of a drinkable yogourt beverage, and were handing out free samples.
Unfortunately, the company that Danone hired (Celsius Communications) failed to provide adequate trash receptacles, and the litter was tremendous! Bottles EVERYWHERE!
I'm infuriated! This is BEYOND disgusting! Not only were the persons responsible for the promotion irresponsible, but they actually did a very poor 'cleanup' job afterwards. The trash cans that had been overflowing were still stuffed with bottles, as only the bottles beneath them had been cleaned up. There were still numerous bottles left on the street, to be stepped on or crushed by busses.
I personally documented every instance of litter that I could find that was directly related to the Celsius promotion, and will be sending a very chunky letter to a number of people tomorrow, including Danone, Celsius, and the City Counsel.
I ask that you do your part. This is unacceptable! Here are the people you should be contacting if you want to prevent companies like Celsius from trashing our city:
CELSIUS COMMUNICATION - RAPHAEL DE LACOTTE
This is the company/man who is personally responsible for the promotional work. Please tell him that he is not welcome to return to our city unless he provides adequate trash receptacles to dispose of the free samples:
rdelacotte@celsiusinc.com
phone: 514 712 5056
fax: 514 278 4846
DANONE YOGOURTS corporate office:
http://www.danone.ca/en/contactus/index.aspx
Danone Inc.
Consumer Relations
100 Lauzon Street
Boucherville, Québec J4B 1E5
7 days a week, from 8h am to 9h pm, standard eastern time
1 800 DANONE-8 (1 800-326-6638)
Please call and ask for someone in marketing. Tell Danone not to use Celsius Communications for any further promotional work due to their inappropriate and irresponsible business practices.
And finally, here is the contact information for Judy Rogers. She is our City Manager and I am sure that she would be willing to listen to any complaints about companies coming in and screwing up our beautiful city:
http://vancouver.ca/citymanager/
Judy Rogers, City Manager
Brent MacGregor, Deputy City Manager
Phone: 604-873-7625
Thanks for your time, fellow Vancouverites! If you would like to get in contact with me personally, please feel free to contact me via email: stephanievacher (at) gmail.com
