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Coca-Cola bottles to be made from 50% recycled plastic

Geoff Riley

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.

Coke should make their bottles out of 100% recycled content, not virgin plastic. https://t.co/lY86vMRu8v

— Greenpeace UK (@GreenpeaceUK) July 12, 2017

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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