Greenpeace slam Coca-Cola for the production of billions of plastic bottles
Coca-Cola produces 120 billion throw plastic bottles a year, Greenpeace Africa on Thursday said in a protest in South Africa, urged soda manufacturer to use glass and tin packaging to cut back on plastic pollution.The activists put a huge bottle cap outside the company’s Johannesburg office in a demonstration on World Environment Day, which emerged with the slogan of “Cap It Coke”.Coca-Cola has been the world’s top plastic pollutants for six consecutive years, the environmental activist group claimed.“Coca-Cola produces 120 billion throwing plastic every year, and most of it will end in the environment and in marine ecosystems,” Helen Kahnas Daena told Greenpeace representative Helen Kahnas Dana.“Today, we are out of office that they are asking them to cut plastic production, refill and invest in reuse, and ensure that they are investing in other permanent forms of packaging such as glass and compartments,” he said.He claimed that the company’s claims to promote plastic recycling are for “greenwash”. “We know that only nine percent are recycled only. Most plastic will end in the environment,” Dena said.The group urged Coca-Cola to stand behind a push Global plastic treaty This will prefer a hat on plastic production.The talks between representatives of about 200 countries for the world’s first agreement on cutting plastic pollution ended without an agreement in South Korea last year, which was mainly after opposition from a block of oil producing countries.There is going to be a new round in Geneva in August.Since the failure of the negotiations, Coca-Cola reduced its environmental commitments by effectively scrapping dates and zodiac signs for recycling 25 percent re-packaging by 2030 and recycling the goals.Greenpeace said that more than 99 percent of plastic fossils are derived from fuel, directly associating plastic production with climate crisis.
