Coca-Cola and PepsiCo came in at the top of a global audit of plastic waste.
By Shannon Osaka, The Washington PostAn event to honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington on Jan. 15 involved cleaning up plastic bottles and other items along the railroad tracks near Pope Branch Park in Southeast.
The largest contributor was Coca-Cola, which accounted for 11% of the branded plastic pollution worldwide. Nestlé said in an email that the company aims to reduce its use of new plastic by one-third and incorporate more recycled content into its packaging. In an emailed statement, PepsiCo said it advocates for a global policy framework to address plastic pollution and is working to build a circular economy in which plastic is reused.
produced 1% of the world’s plastic mass, for example, that company was responsible for roughly 1% of the waste found in the audit. If a company produced 0.1% of the world’s plastic mass, it was responsible for 0.1% of the waste. “It’s kind of my worst nightmare,” said Cowger. “It means that to solve the plastic pollution problem, we have to change in a huge way how we operate as a society.”
“Our members are investing billions of dollars in infrastructure to scale-up the supply of circular plastics, so that used plastics are prevented from entering the environment as waste, landfill or via incineration, and instead become new plastics,” Benny Mermans, chair of the World Plastics Council, said in a statement in the lead-up to the talks.
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