Coca-Cola, Pepsi tout plastic recycling

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Coca-Cola, Pepsi tout plastic recycling
by Sumit Chowdhury \| 27-03-2019 01:56 0
The bosses of Coca-Cola and Pepsi promised Thursday that "huge progress" would be made by 2030 to reduce plastic waste, which contaminates humans, wildlife, and oceans. Soft drink archrivals James Quincey and Ramon Laguarta participated in a panel on the plastic economy, a recurring theme at the World Economic Forum in Davos, alongside Dow Chemical boss Jim Fitterling and others. These three companies are part of the new Alliance to End Plastic Waste announced with great pomp in mid-January by about 30 multinationals. The new Alliance to End Plastic Waste, also comprised of big energy, petrochemical and plastic manufacturing firms said it would donate $1 billion to "minimize and manage plastic waste and promote solutions for used plastics. About eight million tons of plastic are thrown into the sea every year, according to the Earth Day advocacy group the equivalent of a rubbish truck-load every minute. Activists and green experts are skeptical about the intentions of firms such as Procter & Gamble, Chevron, and ExxonMobil, and voiced doubt over the effectiveness of the alliance's clean-up plan. The European Union wants to ban certain single-use plastics such as plates, cutlery, and drinking straws by the end of 2021.Experts say up to 80 percent of all litter in the oceans is made of plastic, much of it from items such as plastic shopping bags or cold-drink bottles used just once. source: AFP

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Kushal Naharki

Kushal Naharki says :
Hello Sumit

I do hope that you are fine and doing great with your works. Thank you for your report about plastic pollution being caused by bottles of plastics of coca cola and pepsi. I too have been people throwing out the bottles after the use but me and my college recycle it for purpose of drinking water bottle. If it can be reused and recycling we must try to rather than treating them as pollutants.

Green Cheers from Nepal :)
Keep writing great reports.
We are eager to read more reports from you.

Yours,
Kushal Naharki
Posted 10-04-2019 18:05

Louis Mentor says :
Hello Sumit,

Thank you for sharing this important issue with others and submitting the report. However, it is not acceptable to directly copy some paragraphs from a certain website. It is recommended to do some research and refer to the websites that you read, but it is never okay to 'copy and paste'. Please try to rewrite a report in your own words.

Louis Mentor
Posted 01-04-2019 21:01

Wonhee Mentor says :
Hello Sumit,

Thank you for sharing this important issue with others and submitting the report. However, it is not acceptable to directly copy some paragraphs from a certain website. It is recommended to do some research and refer to the websites that you read, but it is never okay to 'copy and paste'. Please try to rewrite a report in your own words.

Thanks.
Posted 30-03-2019 22:46