{"id":5349,"date":"2025-02-13T09:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5349"},"modified":"2025-02-13T09:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T14:08:25","slug":"coca-cola-hints-that-more-plastic-is-coming-thanks-to-trump-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=5349","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola Hints That More Plastic Is Coming Thanks To Trump Tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/trump-tariffs-are-coming-for-everyone-even-the-packaging-folks-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Welp, don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t warn you.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what has been one of the greatest backslides in the relatively short history of corporate sustainability goals, during an earnings call with investors, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said that the brand will likely have to sell more beverages in plastic bottles, citing the newly imposed 25% tariff on steel imports that will go into effect on\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-tariffs-steel-aluminum-china-canada-mexico-0a91ceaf3aa3c1756c339817d1d58076\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">March 12th<\/a>, courtesy of President Trump. The pivot comes after Coca-Cola \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/coca-cola-kicks-sustainability-can-down-the-road-to-2035-and-doubles-down-on-plastic\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">evolved<\/a>\u201d its sustainability goals, pushing them out to 2035 and relying on less recycled materials for their packaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs it relates to our strategies around ensuring affordability and ensuring consumer demand, if one package suffers some increase in input costs, we continue to have other packaging offerings that will allow us to compete in the affordability space,\u201d Quincey said on the investor call.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/coca-cola-hints-that-more-plastic-is-coming-thanks-to-trump-tariffs\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welp, don\u2019t say we didn\u2019t warn you. In what has been one of the greatest backslides in the relatively short history of corporate sustainability goals, during an earnings call with investors, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey said that the brand will likely have to sell more beverages in plastic bottles, citing the newly imposed 25% tariff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}