The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.
Time for the beneficiary’s of these companies to start footing the bill for cleaning up their garbage.
But the economy! 😭
That is a good idea. I wouldn’t want to loose the convenience of buying coke in a plastic bottle. So instead, make these firms legally commit to investing in clean up programs so at least some of the litter will be recovered.
Coke in glass or metal is indistinguishable.
Let’s just use the leverage of it being so few companies to force them to do what’s right.
Glass is just as convenient
This is for large plastics. Big pieces of trash.
Microplastics are almost entirely just tire dust.
Last I heard was about 75%
It’s a lot but a pretty far cry from “almost entirely“.
When they grind up large plastic it turns into small plastic
And yet even still the overwhelming majority of that “small plastic” is just… tire dust. That’s still the bulk of the material.
That’s the vast scale of automobile pollution. Another piece of how horrific auto-centric society is for the entire planet.
And yoga pants. Don’t forget yoga pants. Though if I get rare cancer, I hope it’s from girls in yoga pants.
When I buy a bottle of Coca-Cola I am not actually paying much for the sugary water. I’m paying for the convenience of having it in a bottle.
In my mind, this convenience fee ought to be enough to pay for the convenience of also discarding said bottle. Otherwise, they really sold me the inconvenience of having to deal with the bottle that they use to distribute the sugary water.
So, get on with it, Coca-Cola, clean up your shit. I already paid you.
I believe this is true, Circle K gas station near me still has soda fountain drinks for 80-110 cents. The cans and bottles start at 2.50 or more.
This is really close to truth. So many of those products producing trash are useless (bottled water) or even actively harmful (soda, cigarettes). You don’t actually need to pay Coca-Cola at all. You just need a reusable bottle and a water fountain or tap.
Coca-Cola and Phillip Morris will not suddenly start being helpful.
In that sense: encourage your municipality, employers, etc. to set up public water fountains and no-smoking zones. (And if you really want sweet drinks, buy syrups.)
I’m old enough that it was normal and not a hassle to bring your glass bottles to buy Coke and wherever fizzy drinks. But at one point that option disappeared.
Also it helped that a family dinner would consume like a liter, and we didn’t have it everyday.
Is it also a pretty safe bet these are most of the top 60 companies in the world, and we are the ones that buy all their generic crap in plastic containers?
I wonder that any time these statistics are brought up. Like 100 companies are responsible for 70% of greenhouse gases - well isn’t it cause there’s 8 billion people buying their shit? They’re not just running those factories for the fun of it.
Study is here:
Thank you, kind stranger!
It’s not their fault! People should recycle everything! /s
when will something start to be done about this :(
When society fails
It could end tomorrow.
