Coca-Cola's plastic pollution - 100 billion bottles / year

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Plastic Pollution - Why Coca-Cola need to take responsibility too
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/why-coca-cola-need-to-take-responsibility-too

Coca-Cola produces over 100 billion disposable plastic bottles, Greenpeace says
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/coca-cola-plastic-bottles-cant-be-recycled-greenpeace-statement-a7673246.html

Coca-Cola Producing More Than 100 Billion Throwaway Plastic Bottles Every Year, Says Greenpeace
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coca-cola-producing-more-than-100-billion-throwaway-plastic-bottles-greenpeace_uk_58eb557ce4b00de1410490ba

Greenpeace study finds fault with bottle sustainability
http://www.plasticsnews.com/article/20170316/NEWS/170319926/greenpeace-study-finds-fault-with-bottle-sustainability

Coca-Cola plot to kill off bottle deposits: Leaked documents reveal evidence of 'fight back' against plans to help protect its profits
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4157956/Coca-Cola-plot-kill-bottle-deposits.html

It's so dumb to eat seafood these days when we're feeding plastic wastes to the marine life, farmed ones are even worse than the "good catch" from polluted oceans.

[Ron4310]

The item that gets me here where I live is the plastic bag excuses. The stores here, namely Walmart and Save On foods, charge 5 cents for a plastic bag for your groceries to save the landfill. Well I can walk a few feet down the isles and find rows and rows of plastic garbage bags for sale. I believe they should refuse to even handle plastic bags, never mind charging 5 cents. I don't believe they care about the landfill, it's a money grab. I grew up with paper bags at stores. I take my own cloth bags.

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Even Your Sea Salt Contains Microplastics
http://www.ecowatch.com/sea-salt-microplastics-2401423026.html

Of 17 international salt brands tested, all but one contained microplastics.
https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com/food/sea-salt-contaminated-with-plastic

The presence of microplastics in commercial salts from different countries
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep46173
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/67a96b/the_presence_of_microplastics_in_commercial_salts/

The results of this study did not show a significant load of MPs larger than 149 μm in salts originating from 8 different countries and, therefore, negligible health risks associated with the consumption of salts. The increasing trend of plastic use and disposal, however, might lead to the gradual accumulation of MPs in the oceans and lakes and, therefore, in products from the aquatic environments. This should necessitate the regular quantification and characterization of MPs in various sea products.

[greensheep]

The item that gets me here where I live is the plastic bag excuses. The stores here, namely Walmart and Save On foods, charge 5 cents for a plastic bag for your groceries to save the landfill. Well I can walk a few feet down the isles and find rows and rows of plastic garbage bags for sale. I believe they should refuse to even handle plastic bags, never mind charging 5 cents. I don't believe they care about the landfill, it's a money grab. I grew up with paper bags at stores. I take my own cloth bags.

Yes -- and not only plastic bags, but all sorts of things sold in plastic bottles and other forms of plastic packaging. I take my own cloth bags, plus some little cloth bags for the bulk items. Sprouts has stopped providing paper twisty-ties on which to write the bulk number, thereby indirectly encouraging people to use their plastic bags, on which you write the number with a pen. I obviously don't want to write on my cloth bags, but I have no other way to label them without the paper tags. So now I take the extra step of writing each number next to the item on my grocery list and then reading them off to the cashier.

I think the same is true of hotels that put those little signs in the bathroom asking you to help them save water by reusing your towels. I have no problem at all with reusing my towel (I certainly don't wash my towel daily at home!), but I have a problem with their attempt to look saintly for caring about the environment when they're really just using it as an excuse to save money on water, soap, manpower, etc. If they truly cared about the environment, they'd stop serving animal products at the breakfast buffet.

[dinska]

For a few years I thought we might have turned the corner on plastic being used so much for food, now I barely see it covered in health news and I see my friends (who should know better) reusing temporary containers that were most certainly not meant to be washed and used again. Besides the leeching of plastic into your dinner, I also wonder if people think that if you recycle you're covered (in terms of plastic and the environment)?

[MikeInFL]

thanks for posting. The ocean is going to die unless the industrial nations get together to create an emergency plan of action.

Here's another thing polluting the ocean- when you wash your comfy clothes like yoga pants!

"Clothes made from nylon, polyester and other synthetic materials shed microscopic plastic fibers every time they're washed

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[Jack Monzon]

The one time I tried to bring my own container for bulk oats it was a giant production. I had to go to the checkout line just to a clerk could weigh out my container (so I wouldn't get charged for my own container), and she couldn't figure out how to do it right. Had to call someone over, etc. Holding up the line. Since then I just use the plastic bags provided by the store. Not going through that again.

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INVISIBLES
The plastic inside us
https://orbmedia.org/stories/Invisibles_plastics

Plastic fibres found in tap water around the world, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/06/plastic-fibres-found-tap-water-around-world-study-reveals

The US had the highest contamination rate, at 94%, with plastic fibres found in tap water sampled at sites including Congress buildings, the US Environmental Protection Agency’s headquarters, and Trump Tower in New York. Lebanon and India had the next highest rates.

European nations including the UK, Germany and France had the lowest contamination rate, but this was still 72%. The average number of fibres found in each 500ml sample ranged from 4.8 in the US to 1.9 in Europe.

[mountain]

We can all blame Coca Cola but if people wouldn't buy that stuff....there wouldn't be this problem. I never touch soft drinks, only drink water (from my distiller) and use my own fabric bags when shopping. Yes, I still use plastic bags....how else would I get beans etc from the bulk containers home? And how about that 10 lbs bag of potatoes....And as someone else wrote, it is a huge hassle to use your own containers in the store....tried that a couple of times after I just arrived from Germany....gave up on the idea pretty fast!.