Picture taken on July 6, 2009 in Castanet-Tolosan shows Coca-Cola bottles on an assembly line at a ... [+] Coca Cola bottling plant. In this way, it will become the first market in the world to make all its plastic bottles from 100% recycled plastic. Around 40 different variants of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles—including Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite and Bonaqua—will transition to recycled plastic (rPET). “It is simply not realistic for Coca-Cola to think that better collection efforts will solve the plastic pollution crisis when the company produces over 100billion plastic bottles each year,” Melges told Forbes.com. In Western Europe, as part of the sustainability action plan This is Forward, the goal is to reach 50% of recycled content in plastic bottles by 2023 and 100% recyclable by 2025.

Source: Forbes November 27, 2019 13:29 UTC