Coca-Cola is dramatically scaling back its plastic promises

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Coca-Cola set big plastic pollution and climate goals. Now it’s backtracking

Coca-Cola, the top contributor to global plastic pollution among major brands, is retreating from previous goals it set to reduce plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions. The Atlanta-based company, which does business in nearly every country on Earth, cast the change as an “evolution” of its voluntary environmental goals informed by decades of work in sustainability. Environmental groups ...

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Coca-Cola set big plastic pollution and climate goals. Now it's backtracking

Coca-Cola, the top contributor to global plastic pollution among major brands, is retreating from previous goals it set to reduce plastic waste and greenhouse gas emissions. The Atlanta-based company, which does business in nearly every country ...

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Coca-Cola cuts back on reusable plastic pledge

Coca-Cola is reducing its plastic recycling targets from previous commitments, which advocacy groups say is an abandonment of its reuse goals. The beverage giant’s announcement comes just as talks for a global plastic treaty stalled this month. In a statement published Dec. 2 on its website, Coca-Cola said it has updated its voluntary environment goals […]

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Coca-Cola Drops Goals on Reusing, Reducing Plastics

One of the world's top contributors to plastic pollution has backed away from its reduction and reuse goals, saying it's complicated—a move that has sparked criticism from environment organizations. Days before the global summit on reducing plastic use began, the Coca-Cola Co. took down the pledge it made in...

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Coca-Cola has come under fire from environmental activists. That's because the company has lowered its recycling and reuse goals of tens of billions of bottles a year. This was reported by the Financial Times (FT) server.

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Coca-Cola announced that it would reduce its environmental targets and only allow the proportion of recycled material in packaging production to increase to 35 to 40 percent by 2035. Criticism from environmentalists followed immediately.