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Plastic pollution: Is the drinks industry doing enough to reduce single-use plastics?
1 Mar 20211 March 2021
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Many discarded plastic bottles are collected and recycled
Plastic pollution is a big problem. Although plastic is a really useful material that we use every day, what happens when we throw it away is having a huge impact on our environment.
It s thought more than five trillion pieces of plastic are in the world s oceans and it can take hundreds of years for it to break down.
Each year, 400 million tonnes of plastic is produced and 40% of that is single-use - plastic we ll only use once before it s thrown away.
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Seven of the 10 worst polluters The Coca-Cola Company; PepsiCo; Nestlé; Unilever; Mondelez International; Mars, Inc.; and Colgate-Palmolive signed the Ellen MacArthur Foundation s New Plastics Economy Global Commitment in October 2018, which requires them to eliminate all unnecessary plastic while reusing or recycling plastic items in a circular system and create more sustainable substitutes.
However, the foundation reported that its signatories have only reduced its use of virgin plastic by 0.1 percent from 2018 to 2019. Meanwhile, Coca-Cola increased the amount of plastic it uses.
Break Free From Plastic states that these multinational corporations are pumping out so much of single-use plastics that plastic production could double by 2030 and triple by 2050. Such an increase would have a devastating impact on human health, ecological systems, and climate change.