Coca-Cola Named Most Polluting Brand in Plastic Waste Audit
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/coca-cola-plastic-waste-pollution
Coca-Cola was found for the second year in a row to be the most polluting brand in a global audit of plastic trash conducted by the Break Free From Plastic global movement. The giant soda company was responsible for more plastic litter than the next top three polluters combined.
More than 72,000 volunteers fanned out onto beaches, paddled along waterways, and walked along streets near their offices and homes picking up plastic bottles, cups, wrappers, bags, and scraps for the one-day cleanup in September that was the basis for the audit. Sorting through the mounds of garbage, they found that the plastic represented 50 different types and could be traced back to almost 8,000 brands. Coke was responsible for 11,732 pieces of plastic litter found in 37 countries on four continents. After #Coca-Cola, the next biggest contributors to the plastic pollution in the audit were #Nestle, #PepsiCo, #Mondelez International — purveyor of snack brands like #Oreo, #Ritz, #Nabisco, and #Nutter_Butter — and Unilever. More than half of the plastic had eroded to the point where it was impossible to discern who had produced it.