stux⚡️

Coca Cola is a perfect example of a 'run away company' that's just unstoppable

They simply decline all responsiblilty in cleaning their trash while making the plastic pollution issue much worse

The company has stupid responses like:

"We will invest in the local community to teach them about recycling"

While there are NO places to recylce the bottles 🙄

It's just insane how fast we pollute our shared planet for consumption but mostly greed because I do believe we CAN do better

We must.

Jul 6, 2023 at 9:48amWeb
Show threadezra ​Jul 6, 2023
@stux it's like stabbing someone and buying them a million tiny bandaids
Show threadPiTauJul 6, 2023
@ezra @stux Rather teaching them how to treat the injury before they bleed out, while not providing medical equipment
Show threadFunny Konstantin  Jul 6, 2023
@stux They do put a “recycle me” stamp on the cap, as if that makes it better. Recently, they also made this thing where the bottle cap is attached to the bottle. Presumably to make sure both are recycled – which we do at home, but I don't see this happening en masse enough to counter the downsides.
Show threadLibbyJul 6, 2023
@stux last year I heard a coca cola spokesperson on French radio say that mentioning a request to recycle on the bottle caps is a serious effort at sustainability. Repeated in a very serious tone when the journalist doing the interview asked if he was for real with that statement.
Show threadCoo-OpsJul 6, 2023

@stux tax it, it needs to become more aggressively punitive to keep using plastic.

This and non biodegradable coffee cups. Melbourne uses them by the tonne each hour. Biodegradable needs to become the standard.

Show threadManuel J. Escobar 🇺🇦🌻Jul 6, 2023
@stux it’s crazy how we (our politicians) allowed this to start in the ‘70s… when I was a kid the glass bottles were reused and every person in the supply/usage chain contributed…
Show threadFallsMom 🌻Jul 6, 2023
@stux Not to mention how unhealthy what they put *in* the plastic bottles, so many high sugary drinks
Show threaddandelsJul 6, 2023

@stux In $country I've been recycling beverage containers my entire life. Every grocery store has a machine that accepts both plastic and glass bottles as well as metal cans. The price of every bottle/can includes a deposit that you get back when you recycle it. Kids and poor people are incentivized to pick up litter because it's actual money for them. The sunday before last my 5 year old nephew was waving around two plastic bottles at a family get-together because he's "saving for his own computer".

If you can't recycle plastic bottles in your country, the failure is more than just Coca Cola's fault.

Show threadPanoramicJul 6, 2023
@stux Now I am curious how recycling works in the US. In Germany, almost every bottle (about 94%) get‘s recycled, including from Coca Cola.
Show threadIamBenJul 7, 2023
@Panoramic @stux
Although 94% recycled is impressive. The issue is that if 100 million bottles are sold that is 6 million not recycled. Worldwide tens of billions are sold each year, even recycling those at 99.9% leaves millions of bottles unaccounted for.
Show threadJon [🇺🇦,🏳️‍🌈]Jul 6, 2023
@stux Every time I go to the store and walk past the soda aisle I cant unsee how it is just an aisle of pre-polluted water. 😬
Show threadeyrea 🇨🇦Jul 6, 2023
@stux I never found a source verifying the data for it, but I remember seeing a Top Ten Global Trash Producers list where nine out of the ten were junk food manufacturers (Coca Cola was definitely on it), and the one that wasn't was a cigarette company.
Show thread😻🇨🇦MimzyDub🇨🇦😻Jul 6, 2023
@stux yet another reason I stopped drinking the pop to which I'm literally and truly addicted. It's bad for my health and it's bad for the planet.
Show threadPS JenJul 6, 2023
@stux There is so much broken-up #plastic everywhere from all the #packaging. In the woods, on the beach, at the playground. It was never ever like this guys. I'm 52 and lived through leaded gas and asbestos but plastic pollution is really scary. They triple plastic package items just to give profits to #BigOil.
Show threadOsfast Jul 6, 2023
@stux I love your passion for the planet. I enjoy seeing you love and foster your cats. But I'm fairly disheartened by your strong expression of anti-ism opinions. Don't let your love turn into hate. Be the good movement toward more sustainable development and open en federated social media. Please don't become just another hater with a platform.
Show threadFluzJul 6, 2023
@stux a friendly reminder to myself, that even though I don’t drink Coca Cola, I likely do buy something else they own like bottled water or sports drink or sparkling water. It’s tough to keep track of what large mega corps own. And I should be more aware of the impact I have.
Show threadIHeartHockey29Jul 6, 2023
@stux coca Cola always tastes better in glass bottles. They should have stuck with glass.
Show threadspheruliticJul 6, 2023
@stux plastic recycling is one of the greatest corporate scams ever put over on us. It‘s not a real thing. It’s as phony as “carbon offsets”
Show threadguy,in,a,hatJul 6, 2023
@stux and they hide behind many #brands and #beverage types too... #Springfield spring #water, #radioactive #mountaindew....etc. Coca-Cola is evil.
Show threadMaxilo OveritJul 7, 2023

@stux

I say the cans, bottles, etc. should have a tie to the company so that every last bit of what they produce has to be returned to the beginning of the product cycle and its matter reused to create the same thing again.

Otherwise these products shouldn't be allowed to be made.

Show threadJohnWJul 7, 2023
@stux Absolutely. I've stopped buying all drinks in plastic bottles. Plus I work from home so I only drive 2-3 times a week. Trying really hard to do my part.