[Livia]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Or just get rid of bottles totally and only use the recyclable cans, they could do different sizes

I could go for that idea.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Livia

I could go for that idea.

Coke from a can tastes nicer than from a plastic bottle too imo

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

My lad sliced his wrist and arm really badly from broken glass when he took a fall playing football. When you see something like that, believe me, you would take plastic every time

Cans then?

[smudgie]

Fizzy drinks were all sold in glass bottles 50/60 years ago, in Africa and over here. Mainly the larger bottles in Britain when I was a kid, and both sizes in Africa.


Edit to say, boycott the beggars.

[Tom4784]

It's utterly selfish of them to not move to another more environmentally friendly container. I hope this bites them in the arse before it bites everyone.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

It's utterly selfish of them to not move to another more environmentally friendly container. I hope this bites them in the arse before it bites everyone.

But Dezzy
Glass is Dangerous
Plastic is not.

Coca Cola do many soft drinks
Massive Factory's in many nation's
they are staying with Plastic
that can recycled
but so many do not.

[Scarlett.]

Originally Posted by arista

But Dezzy
Glass is Dangerous
Plastic is not.

Tell that to the sealife dying out from our waste

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Dia.

Tell that to the sealife dying out from our waste

Indeed

[James]

Let's be honest, plastic is much more convenient than glass, and if Coca Cola switched their bottles to all glass their sales would probably drop dramatically.

[arista]

Originally Posted by James

Let's be honest, plastic is much more convenient than glass, and if Coca Cola switched their bottles to all glass their sales would probably drop dramatically.

Yes that's the reason the CEO
James R. B. Quincey is a British businessman
in the United States.
and in Davos
is staying with Plastic.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dia.

Tell that to the sealife dying out from our waste

Yes Asia Nation's dumping Rubbish near the Sea
do not care.
The Damage is done.


But in Our Zones
we Recycle

[James]

I do often take a cup of tea in a travel mug out with me, instead of getting a drink in a disposable cup.

I looked up some information about plastic in the oceans.

Scientists affiliated with The Ocean Cleanup, a group working to reduce plastic pollution, determined that, by weight, fishing nets make up at least 46 per cent of the plastic in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a floating pile of rubbish that’s three times the size of France.

From https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/08/the-r...drink-9856337/

By analyzing the waste found in the rivers and surrounding landscape, researchers were able to estimate that just 10 river systems carry 90% of the plastic that ends up in the ocean.

Eight of them are in Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/...ust-10-rivers/



https://www.statista.com/chart/12211...eans-the-most/

[AnnieK]

I've just been reading a debate on this on LinkedIn.....people are pretty incensed about it. This was the debate starter:

Coca-Cola won't bin plastic bottles

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Coca-Cola will not bin single-use plastic bottles because customers still want them, the firm’s head of sustainability told the BBC. In 2019, the drinks giant produced about three million tonnes of plastic packaging — equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute — making it one of the world’s biggest plastic waste polluters. “Business won’t be in business if we don’t accommodate consumers,” Bea Perez told the World Economic Forum in Davos, saying that relegating plastic outright would hurt sales. Coke has pledged to recycle as many plastic bottles as it uses by 2030.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by James

Let's be honest, plastic is much more convenient than glass, and if Coca Cola switched their bottles to all glass their sales would probably drop dramatically.

Of course plastic is more convenient than glass but we need to drastically decrease it's use, we are killing the ocean.

[James]

There was a cafe in my town that used to sell the old school Coca Cola glass bottles - it tasted better out of glass.

[Toy Soldier]

The elephant in the room of course, is that whilst not quite as bad as plastic... glass isn't actually environmentally friendly at all.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by James

There was a cafe in my town that used to sell the old school Coca Cola glass bottles - it tasted better out of glass.

Definitely did. Alot of the Pubs here do glass bottles of coke but they're smaller than usual

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The elephant in the room of course, is that whilst not quite as bad as plastic... glass isn't actually environmentally friendly at all.

Can that not be reused though, like they did years ago, they'd add a few cents onto the price and when you returned the bottle you'd get it back. Of course lots of people wouldn't still but then you would have the entrepreneurs gathering up un returned bottles to claim a tidy profit

[Cherie]

I don’t drink it, awful stuff ..tbh if people cant be arsed to recycle plastic in the face of a crises, I don’t know how many would be bothered to take back a bottle to a shop for 10p these days so its probably much of a muchness

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

The elephant in the room of course, is that whilst not quite as bad as plastic... glass isn't actually environmentally friendly at all.

Can we have an explanation of why?

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by arista

It would slow down Production

And Cost to much to change machines

in all World factory's.





Paxman is in the Papers

Angry at them.









Sign Of The Times.

We could change that by not buying their stuff...




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[Kizzy]

Well that's a good point, as consumers we could voice our displeasure by not using the product in the hope that they will listen?

[arista]

Pepsi are the Same
Sticking with Plastic bottles


When Coca Cola USA brought out
Coca Cola 2
it was very much like Pepsi.

[Cherie]

or maybe as consumers we should dispose of any plastic we buy in a responsible way, what would happen if they change to glass, would consumers suddenly dispose of them responsibly because they are glass?

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

Can we have an explanation of why?

It's energy (and thus carbon) intensive to smelt sand into glass, and the amount of sand needed to fulfil the world glass needs even NOW is causing coastline erosion. If plastic was totally replaced by glass, you'd be tripling-or-more the glass production requirements.

Its also significantly heavier than plastic, which means you need more vehicles (at least double) to ship the same volume of produce, which again adds to emissions.

The argument is that it can be recycled or reused and is therefore better, but there wouldn't be a problem with plastic if people were recycling it. The reason that it's a problem is that people are NOT recycling. Why would anyone think people are suddenly going to start recycling glass?

Its marginally better in the short term because of the immediate threat that plastics pose to the ocean, but glass as a long term solution just isn't sensible or viable.