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So what?
Some sacrifices need to be made to maximize shareholder value. Don’t forget, we’re all in this together 🌎❤️📈
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Feel like we should not make disposable plastic anymore.
Working for a company who makes glass bottles that are 100% recyclable with no loss agrees.
What's the price difference between the two? I'm assuming it's only a few more cents per bottle right?
Not sure have no clue the cost. But with glass being so easily recyclable I'm sure it be well worth it. Hell they can make aluminum cans that have caps and that to is easily recyclable with no loss.
We should go back to the days when you were expected to return your empty bottle to the vending machine, so that Coca-Cola could recycle it for you. Republicans want America to go back to the 1950s, so you would think that they would try to convince drink manufacturers to start being responsible for their own bottles again. But they won't because recycling is probably too woke for them.
That makes sense to me.
But they don't want to make businesses do anything, even if it means choking the oceans with trash and filling our bodies with plastic. Frankly, they're bad people that we shouldn't put up with.
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.
It's kinda weird to express it in millions of kg, I feel 602 000 tons is easier to understand.
Thanks america!
Six hundred and two MILLION kilograms of plastic PER YEAR am I reading that correctly?
Line must go up 📈
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.
You're really bad at maths
Yep
I see you edited your comment to be more wrong. Your weight per person is off:
605m kg / 8bn people = ~0.075kg per person
So 75 grams, or about 5 bottles per person per year
You're probably more correct than me, lol~
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.
3/5ths of that chart is Coke products.
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.