Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

[joko104]

[FONT=&quot]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
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[FONT=&quot]The Guardian reported Thursday that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
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That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

 

[EMNofSeattle]

[FONT="]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Guardian [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year"]reported Thursday[/URL] that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
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That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

Plastic is cheap and sterile. I love glass bottles because I’m nostalgic, I buy Mexican Coke in glass bottles by the case, but plastic is superior. It’s not really that much plastic when you think of it.

 

[Xelor]

I never did quite understand why firms switched away from returnable bottles, milk delivered fresh to the door, and other reusable resources. Seemed to me that was one of those things that wasn't broke and didn't need fixin'.

​

All sorts of things didn't come in plastic. Remember going to the butcher or fishmonger? They wrapped the meat, fish or poultry in brown waxed paper. Now, "everything's" in styrofoam and/or plastic.

 

[SMTA]

[FONT="]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Guardian [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year"]reported Thursday[/URL] that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
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That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

Of course this post is completely ignorant regarding the environmental impact of plastics.
SOP that your posts ignore reality, and eschew intelligence.

 

[rocket88]

I never did quite understand why firms switched away from returnable bottles, milk delivered fresh to the door, and other reusable resources. Seemed to me that was one of those things that wasn't broke and didn't need fixin'.

​

All sorts of things didn't come in plastic. Remember going to the butcher or fishmonger? They wrapped the meat, fish or poultry in brown waxed paper. Now, "everything's" in styrofoam and/or plastic.

Well, the plastic is cheaper and recycled plastic pellets can go into any number of things. Road construction, clothes, or just into another bottle.

Also, recycling the bottles has become an industry on it's own, so that creates more jobs and more economic growth.

 

[Xelor]

Well, the plastic is cheaper and recycled plastic pellets can go into any number of things. Road construction, clothes, or just into another bottle.

Also, recycling the bottles has become an industry on it's own, so that creates more jobs and more economic growth.

I appreciate your reply; however, I'm not going to engage because the substance of your reply -- it's reference to costs and economic grown absent so much as an allusion, to say nothing of an explicit reference, to externalities and/or social costs and private costs, or even to attenuating tech innovations -- suggests you're not prepared to seriously discuss the topic. (The topic isn't one that lends itself to "tweets.")

That is what it is, but it yet is, and I'm just not interested in having a didactic engagement nor do I care to engage with folks who offer but summary pronouncements. Mind you, as shown by the dearth of responses to a thread I created some time back, one that touches on and leads eventually to issues such as "paper vs. plastic," or as is the case with this thread, "glass vs. plastic," a lot of folks aren't.


I will, however, point you (and others who're interested) to some content that, should you read and master the ideas presented, you will be prepared enough to discuss the topic, at least on a layman's level.

• Fundamentals:
  • Externalities or Principles of Microeconomics: Externalities
    • Negative Externalities
    • Social Cost and Externalities
  • What is the difference between private and social costs, and how do they relate to pollution and production?
  • Accounting for Externalities
  • Economics and Contemporary Issues (1996)
    • The Economist's Perspective
    • Cost-Reducing Measures
  • An Applied General Equilibrium Model for the Analysis of Environmental Policy
  • Exploring the General Equilibrium Costs of Sector-Specific Environmental Regulations
• Application, Analysis and Integration:
  • Corporate reporting and accounting for externalities
  • Environmental Accounting for Pollution: Methods with an Application to the United States Economy (2009)
    • Note:
      Careful readers will observe that this paper's conclusions are extremely conservative. The authors provide an incomplete picture of the costs of industrial pollution by omitting measurements of water and soil pollution costs. Furthermore, the costs of CO[SUB]2[/SUB] are included for only one industry; however, in fairness to Muller et al, that derived from the preponderant unavailability of CO[SUB]2[/SUB] emissions data. Consequently, the authors' conclusions are conservative, and one must infer that true costs of environmental pollution markedly exceed those indicated.
  • Externalities and Growth
  • Accounting for Environmental Externalities Is Good for Business and the Planet
  • Glass vs. Plastic: Life Cycle Assessment of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Bottles across Global Supply Chains
  • The New Plastics Economy
    An Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with environmental groups like Ocean Conservancy as well as companies important to packaging such as Dow, the consumer products company Unilever, and the packaging firm Amcor, report aiming to reconcile industry and activists on the packaging issue.
  • Valuing Plastic: The Business Case for Measuring, Managing and Disclosing Plastic Use in the Consumer Goods Industry -- Costs such as disposal and greenhouse gas emissions from using plastics have an environmental cost of $75B annually, accounting for 23% and 12% of the overall impact, respectively.
    
    
    
  • Plastic Bag Bans: Analysis of Economic and Environmental Impacts
  • Life-Cycle Data Sets for Material Production of Aluminum, Glass, Paper, Plastic, and Steel in North America
    Analysis of this report's content suggests strongly that for beverages, given production, distribution, use and disposal/reuse, 100%-recycled aluminum is the most total-cost effective packaging material.
  • The Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the U.S. Economy

 

[Steve Case]

Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017
...Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually...

Three million tons would be 3MM tons. But let's not quibble over a typo.
I looked out my window earlier today and the hedgerow by the railroad
tracks was festooned with plastic bags. Why do I see those flossing
thingies in nearly every parking lot? There's always plastic bottles
floating in the pond by the park across the way from me.

It will be interesting to see how much litter all those kids who are on
strike today leave behind. Maybe they will be better than some of the
other demonstrations that have left a mess to clean up.

 

[Jack Hays]

[FONT="]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Guardian [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year"]reported Thursday[/URL] that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

Gallic shrug.:shrug:

 

[Rexedgar]

I appreciate your reply; however, I'm not going to engage because the substance of your reply -- it's reference to costs and economic grown absent so much as an allusion, to say nothing of an explicit reference, to externalities and/or social costs and private costs, or even to attenuating tech innovations -- suggests you're not prepared to seriously discuss the topic. (The topic isn't one that lends itself to "tweets.")

That is what it is, but it yet is, and I'm just not interested in having a didactic engagement nor do I care to engage with folks who offer but summary pronouncements. Mind you, as shown by the dearth of responses to a thread I created some time back, one that touches on and leads eventually to issues such as "paper vs. plastic," or as is the case with this thread, "glass vs. plastic," a lot of folks aren't.


I will, however, point you (and others who're interested) to some content that, should you read and master the ideas presented, you will be prepared enough to discuss the topic, at least on a layman's level.

• Fundamentals:
  • Externalities or Principles of Microeconomics: Externalities
    • Negative Externalities
    • Social Cost and Externalities
  • What is the difference between private and social costs, and how do they relate to pollution and production?
  • Accounting for Externalities
  • Economics and Contemporary Issues (1996)
    • The Economist's Perspective
    • Cost-Reducing Measures
  • An Applied General Equilibrium Model for the Analysis of Environmental Policy
  • Exploring the General Equilibrium Costs of Sector-Specific Environmental Regulations
• Application, Analysis and Integration:
  • Corporate reporting and accounting for externalities
  • Environmental Accounting for Pollution: Methods with an Application to the United States Economy (2009)
    • Note:
      Careful readers will observe that this paper's conclusions are extremely conservative. The authors provide an incomplete picture of the costs of industrial pollution by omitting measurements of water and soil pollution costs. Furthermore, the costs of CO[SUB]2[/SUB] are included for only one industry; however, in fairness to Muller et al, that derived from the preponderant unavailability of CO[SUB]2[/SUB] emissions data. Consequently, the authors' conclusions are conservative, and one must infer that true costs of environmental pollution markedly exceed those indicated.
  • Externalities and Growth
  • Accounting for Environmental Externalities Is Good for Business and the Planet
  • Glass vs. Plastic: Life Cycle Assessment of Extra-Virgin Olive Oil Bottles across Global Supply Chains
  • The New Plastics Economy
    An Ellen MacArthur Foundation, in collaboration with environmental groups like Ocean Conservancy as well as companies important to packaging such as Dow, the consumer products company Unilever, and the packaging firm Amcor, report aiming to reconcile industry and activists on the packaging issue.
  • Valuing Plastic: The Business Case for Measuring, Managing and Disclosing Plastic Use in the Consumer Goods Industry -- Costs such as disposal and greenhouse gas emissions from using plastics have an environmental cost of $75B annually, accounting for 23% and 12% of the overall impact, respectively.
    
    
    
  • Plastic Bag Bans: Analysis of Economic and Environmental Impacts
  • Life-Cycle Data Sets for Material Production of Aluminum, Glass, Paper, Plastic, and Steel in North America
    Analysis of this report's content suggests strongly that for beverages, given production, distribution, use and disposal/reuse, 100%-recycled aluminum is the most total-cost effective packaging material.
  • The Impacts of Environmental Regulation on the U.S. Economy

Begs the question; if you had chosen to engage, what would your post look like?

:shock:

 

[Lord of Planar]

[FONT="]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Guardian [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year"]reported Thursday[/URL] that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
[FONT="]

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

The plastic bottles of water in front of me has a 10 cent return here in Oregon. The bottle has five other states listed on it. My glass beer bottle is also a dime, and has eight other states listed on it.

 

[iguanaman]

[FONT="]Coca-Cola Co. produced more than 3 million tons of plastic packaging in 2017, according to a newly published report, the first time the soft drink giant has revealed its plastic output.[/FONT][/COLOR]
[COLOR=#333333][FONT="]Coca-Cola provided the information to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is pushing for pro-environmental measures through its "New Plastics Economy initiative."
[/FONT]
[FONT="]The Guardian [URL="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/mar/14/coca-cola-admits-it-produces-3m-tonnes-of-plastic-packaging-a-year"]reported Thursday[/URL] that Coca-Cola did not specify the scale of its bottle production, but that the 3.3 million tons of plastic packaging translates to roughly 108 billion bottles per year.

Other companies that disclosed their plastic packaging output to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation include Mars, Nestle and Danone, which together produced roughly 8 million tons of plastic packaging per year, The Guardian reported.

Coca-Cola reveals that it produces 3.3M tons of plastic packaging annually

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter at all. [/FONT]
[FONT="]

That's a lot of plastic. Maybe there should be a return to reusable glass bottles that people who bring them back get paid something for them if still usable. Or maybe it doesn't matter and plastic isn't really evil. [/FONT]

My County makes plastic wood out of 2 L. bottles. Is plastic wood evil? Or you can make your own furniture out of bottles.....

 

[Rexedgar]

The plastic bottles of water in front of me has a 10 cent return here in Oregon. The bottle has five other states listed on it. My glass beer bottle is also a dime, and has eight other states listed on it.

I have seen the same information on beer bottles. Always have tried to figure out a way to make a profit by collecting the higher deposit bottles and then return them to the highest paying jurisdiction.........