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Coca-Cola: We won't stop using plastic bottles  " Customers like them too much, Bea Perez, the company's head of sustainability, told BBC News at the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday. -Eco Watch According to Perez, customers like these bottles because they are lightweight and can easily be resealed.  Since "business must still be in business", the company plans to recycle as much plastic bottles as it produces by 2030. What these plastics actually do "The proliferation of single-use plastic around the world is accelerating climate change and should be urgently halted, a report warns." - The Guardian If Coca cola, the no 1 corporate plastic polluter in the world has refused to ditch the use of single use plastic bottles despite growing concerns, then what model are they playing for the masses to follow. Currently  they produce about 200,000 bottles per minute, every year, which is approximately 3.3 million tons of plastic pack...

Climate Emergency: Consequences of the Australian Fires? " Humanity is in a climate emergency  ... If 2019 was the second hottest year on record on the earth’s surface, according to latest research, then I sincerely wonder what we have ahead of us with the skyrocketing climatic changes that seem to plague us. Gavin Schmidt, of NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space studies, said “The last decade was easily the warmest decade in the record and is the first decade more than 1C above late 19th century temperatures." Do you feel hotter by the day? No, not literally, I meant does the environment around you seem hotter. Do the nights feel warmer than usual? Does the day feel warmer? Wonder why the rain seems to fall more when it’s past its season or fall less during its season? The Australian fire was just a sure fire proof that the rate of climate change is much more heightened than usual. What does 'Climate Emergency' mean? Just think about a 'sta...