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Coca-Cola bottles to be made from 50% recycled plastic
15th July 2017
A good example to use of businesses responding to growing awareness of the impact of non- recyclable plastics on the natural environment.
The world's five biggest soft drinks manufacturers produce over 2 million tonnes of plastic bottles a year and the equivalent of a dumper truck of plastic every minute ends up in the global oceans. Is Coca Cola's initiative sufficient? Why stop at 50% of bottles made using recycled plastic?
Should they be making more extensive use of plastic bottle deposit return schemes as an incentive for consumers?
Coca-Cola sells around 100 billion plastic bottles a year
20,000 single use plastic drinking bottles are sold around the world every second
Coca-Cola bottles to be made from 50% recycled plastic by 2020 https://t.co/rnNJLFMpfr
— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 12, 2017
More Greenwash from Coke.
— Greenpeace UK (@GreenpeaceUK) July 12, 2017
Coke should make their bottles out of 100% recycled content, not virgin plastic. https://t.co/lY86vMRu8v
Coca-Cola to radically increase amount of recycled plastic in its bottles https://t.co/x06jQOyiJp
— Guardian Environment (@guardianeco) July 11, 2017
#plasticwaste Small step - congratulations campaigners. But we need a deposit scheme & 100% RPET bottles https://t.co/QIGoNpICoY
— Natalie Bennett (@natalieben) July 12, 2017
Coca-Cola 'produces over 100 billion disposable plastic bottles' https://t.co/35zpc8KMIV
— The Independent (@Independent) April 11, 2017
One study estimates there will be more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050. Time for radical action? https://t.co/o3teuCuxvC
— BBC The Inquiry (@BBCTheInquiry) July 20, 2017
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Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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