Plastic bottles and tin cans from Coca-Cola’s beverages were the killers of British beaches. This is reported by The Guardian with reference to the study of the Charity Organization Surfers Against Sewage (SAS).
In the framework of the study, almost four thousand volunteers collected garbage on the beaches, passing a total of 11 thousand miles (17.7 thousand kilometers). The action has become the largest cleaning of the territory in the UK. Volunteers found that the assembled garbage consisted of packages of 10 thousand trademarks belonging to 328 companies. According to the report, 65 percent of the entire garbage left on the beaches of Great Britain, accounted for by 12 companies: Coca-Cola, Pepsico, AB Inbev, McDonald’s, Mondelez International, Heineken, Tesco, Carlsberg Group, Suntory, Haribo, Mars and Aldi. Most often vacationers pollute the beaches with an empty package Coca-Cola.
The head of SAS Hugo Tagholm called on the Great Britain’s power to rather launch the deposit refund scheme – the program according to which the buyer pays for the goods in one-time packaging, but can return money if you pass the empty packag to the reception point. After the start of the pandemic, the implementation of the program was postponed until 2024, although it falls under it more than half of the products of 12 pollutants of beaches and 80 percent of Coca-Cola packaging. Tagholm also reported that despite the active distribution of personal protective equipment, they constitute only 2.5 percent of the plastic collected, to which the manufacturers of drinks and products are not related.
Representative Coca-Cola expressed regret that the packaging from the company’s products was not where there should be. “All our packaging is 100 percent suitable for recycling. Our goal is to recycle as much as possible to produce packaging anew,” the company noted.
At the end of last year, the report of the Break Free From Plastic organization about the companies most polluting plastic planet was published. The first three places of anti-Range took Coca-Cola, Pepsico and Nestlé. The garbage from Coca-Cola products found in 51 out of 55 countries.