Grocery giants Loblaws, Metro and Sobeys suffocate apples and green beans, meat and fish in plastic. It's hard to avoid filling our grocery carts with harmful plastics.

And the plastic ends up in landfills and polluting our oceans.

Bags that suffocate seabirds, micro-plastics that season our favourite dishes - it’s an unnecessary price to pay for fresh food. 

Already, many supermarkets in Europe have already eliminated plastic from the packaging of their products. Alternatives exist. Grocery stores are starting to change their approach, but they need to kick their ecological transition into high gear.

A strong outcry right now will force these grocery giants to speed up their transition away from plastic and save our oceans from the plastic scourge. 

It's time for the grocery giants to wake up: they have easy access to alternative packaging and can make an eco-friendly transition without plastic. 

Plastics are invading every area of our lives. Micro-plastics have been found in oysters, in the stomachs of beluga whales in the Arctic, and even in rain and snow.

But you and I can stop this by getting plastics off our fresh food. 

But SumOfUs members like you are changing the way businesses and government view the use of plastic. Thanks to you, last June, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised legislation to introduce a ban on harmful single-use plastics.

But we can't wait for government action -- we need corporations like Loblaws, Sobeys and Metro to take action now.