As the report stipulates, more and more studies establish a link between plastic and their chemicals with many health problems, such as cancer or infertility.
However, as Greenpeace notes, with so many profits, the brand could very well change the situation and change economic model, at the same time influencing several other brands in the sector. A better world is possible … but it remains distant: Coca-Cola has not, to date, still not committed to reducing the number of single-use plastic bottles and the number even tends to increase!
4.1 million tonnes per year by 2030
To have a good idea of the extent of the problem, the Coca-Cola group had “ Produces around 4,250 plastic bottles per second, consuming more than 3.4 million tonnes of plastics per year ” In 2022, according to a press release published by France Nature Environnement (FNE), which announced that it had filed a complaint against Coca-Cola for Greenwashing.
And the trend is not ready to reverse, according to a report by the NGO Oceana published on March 26, 2025 entitled “Coca-Cola's annual plastic footprint is expected to reach 9.1 billion pounds by 2030 ”. In other words, “Coca-Cola plastic consumption will exceed 4.1 million tonnes per year by 2030 ”.
How to reverse the situation?
“” “The future of Coca-Cola is currently linked, like a ball around the neck, with single-use plastic. Single -use plastic is harmful to oceans, human health and businesses. Recycling cannot solve the uncontrollable problem of the plastic with which the company is faced. Reuse, yes”Explains Matt Littlejohn, senior vice-president of Oceana.
But then how to fight this plastic scourge made in Coca-Cola? According to the NGO, it would be necessary to change drastically to do, by opting rather for reusable materials like glass, or then polyethylene (PET), a more solid way than plastic and above all, which can be reused 25 times!
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