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[–] [email protected] 68 points 3 months ago (24 children)

The two tobacco companies Altria and Philip Morris International combined made up 2% of the branded plastic litter found, both Danone and Nestlé each produced 3% of it, PepsiCo was responsible for 5% of the discarded packaging, and 11% of branded plastic waste could be traced to the Coca-Cola company.

Imagine how much plastic waste could be eliminated if Coke and Pepsi just went back to glass bottles?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Imagine how much plastic waste could be eliminated if we just boycotted these companies.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (8 children)

You are going to have a much harder time convincing people to give up on their soda addiction than you are finding a way to get the soda addicts to get Coke and Pepsi to switch back to glass.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps so, alas. And the rates of obesity and diabetes continue to rise. sigh.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That’s the thing about addiction. You keep using even though it’s really bad for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I did notice Altria / Phillip Morris were also in that list. :-(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

All those cigarette packages wrapped in plastic.

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