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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:47 AM Mar 2019

Coca-Cola admits it produces 3m tonnes of plastic packaging a year

Source: theguardian.com

Coca-Cola has revealed for the first time it produces 3m tonnes of plastic packaging a year – equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute – as a report calls on other global companies to end the secrecy over their plastic footprint.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year

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Coca-Cola admits it produces 3m tonnes of plastic packaging a year (Original Post) lordsummerisle Mar 2019 OP

Hopefully we can find a means to change Sherman A1 Mar 2019 #1

and then there's this Lulu KC Mar 2019 #2

I remember sorting bottles at a grocery store as a high school kid. Pepsi and Coke had local brewens Mar 2019 #3

Maybe we should be drinking our beer, soft drinks, and fancy waters on tap at the corner tavern. hunter Mar 2019 #4

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

1. Hopefully we can find a means to change

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:56 AM

Mar 2019

to more reusable packaging like the old glass bottles.

Lulu KC

(2,567 posts)

2. and then there's this

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:11 AM

Mar 2019

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/14/business/coca-cola-recycling-grant/index.html

Cynical me says it should have happened 25 years ago; the me who's trying to be cheerful says they are helping. But who drinks this stuff, anyway?

brewens

(13,594 posts)

3. I remember sorting bottles at a grocery store as a high school kid. Pepsi and Coke had local

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Thu Mar 14, 2019, 09:57 AM

Mar 2019

bottling plants, so all of them went there to be refilled. All this convenience has cost us a lot of jobs.

hunter

(38,317 posts)

4. Maybe we should be drinking our beer, soft drinks, and fancy waters on tap at the corner tavern.

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Thu Mar 14, 2019, 02:59 PM

Mar 2019

The environmental footprint of all drink packaging is huge, be it plastic, glass, or aluminum.

Recycling rates in our California community are high. Wherever you look, there's a homeless person digging through the trash looking for beer, soda, and water containers. Is that a good thing? This small army of recyclers prefers aluminum and plastic over glass because it's much easier to carry.

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