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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] getoffthedrugsdude@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

From the research article:

The top five brands globally were The Coca-Cola Company (11%), PepsiCo (5%), Nestlé (3%), Danone (3%), and Altria (2%), accounting for 24% of the total branded count, and 56 companies accounted for more than 50%. There was a clear and strong log-log linear relationship production (%) = pollution (%) between companies’ annual production of plastic and their branded plastic pollution, with food and beverage companies being disproportionately large polluters.