Coca-Cola: We won't stop using plastic bottles
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 packaging.
Now, you might not know, but plastics contribute to greenhouse gases from their birth to their death. Except they never actually really die.
What this means is that by 2050, plastic will be responsible for up to 13% of the total “carbon budget” – equivalent to 615 coal-fired power plants – says a research published in 2019.
Kate Melges, Greenpeace USA Plastics Campaigner says she thinks Perez's explanation fell short of a lot of considerations. To summarise what she said in an email to EcoWatch:
As long as companies like Coke keep pushing the myth that their bottles are being turned into new bottles over and over again, we are never going to solve the plastic pollution crisis.
The solution is not to simply swap one throwaway material for another or continue to fall back on recycling. The solution is for Coca-Cola and other consumer goods giants to fundamentally rethink how they're bringing products to people, centering systems of reuse and package-free options.
Join the fight against plastic pollution.
Author:
Bibitayo Omidiora is a content creator, and like so many people in this world, has only just begun to understand the need to partake in the fight to save the earth.
As such, in conjunction with Stac Green Club, we will not stop until we all see the value is deemed nonsense.
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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 packaging.
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Coca cola: World's largest plastic polluter
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What this means is that by 2050, plastic will be responsible for up to 13% of the total “carbon budget” – equivalent to 615 coal-fired power plants – says a research published in 2019.
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Kate Melges, Greenpeace USA Plastics Campaigner says she thinks Perez's explanation fell short of a lot of considerations. To summarise what she said in an email to EcoWatch:
As long as companies like Coke keep pushing the myth that their bottles are being turned into new bottles over and over again, we are never going to solve the plastic pollution crisis.
The solution is not to simply swap one throwaway material for another or continue to fall back on recycling. The solution is for Coca-Cola and other consumer goods giants to fundamentally rethink how they're bringing products to people, centering systems of reuse and package-free options.
Join the fight against plastic pollution.
Author:
Bibitayo Omidiora is a content creator, and like so many people in this world, has only just begun to understand the need to partake in the fight to save the earth.
As such, in conjunction with Stac Green Club, we will not stop until we all see the value is deemed nonsense.
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