By 2030, Coca-Cola products will account for an estimated 602m kilograms of plastic waste entering the world’s oceans and waterways each year, according to a stark new analysis published Wednesday by the non-profit Oceana.
That is enough plastic to fill the stomachs of 18m whales.
The report arrives amid mounting concerns over the human health risks posed by the spread of microplastics, which scientists increasingly link to cancer, infertility and heart disease.
Feel like we should not make disposable plastic anymore.
It should really only be used for medical supplies.
But we’re too far gone now. Our earth is fully infected with decaying plastic, we’re all ingesting it, and there is no undoing it.
You’ve got my vote!
Just watched Alone Australia (filmed in Tasmania) and the only containers that 2 of the contestants found so far were glass.
I don’t ever remember seeing any glass being found on America’s Alone series.
Six hundred and two MILLION kilograms of plastic PER YEAR am I reading that correctly?
does the math That’s like 15kg/human. An empty 12-Oz coke bottle weighs about 15 grams, so that’s just about 100 bottles per human per year.
It’s kinda weird to express it in millions of kg, I feel 602 000 tons is easier to understand.
Does Coca-Cola use plastic that is somehow different from other plastic bottles?
Seems like they probably just focused on Coca Cola because of their market share
I thought Sprite was owned by Coke.
Yeah tbh I couldn’t find an image that shows just how much dominance they have purely by separate parent org. But if sprite, Diet Coke, and coke are all so much higher than Dr Pepper and Pepsi, it should give some idea
it has a subtle hint of cola taste
That’s it? I’m sure we can bump those numbers up before then.
