{"id":6154,"date":"2025-03-26T19:43:27","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=6154"},"modified":"2025-03-26T19:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:43:27","slug":"oceana-report-says-coca-cola-is-responsible-for-over-1-billion-pounds-of-plastic-entering-our-waterways-annually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=6154","title":{"rendered":"Oceana Report Says Coca-Cola Is Responsible For Over 1 Billion Pounds of Plastic Entering Our Waterways Annually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Oceana, a non-profit organization focused on driving ocean conservation policies at a national level, has released a report showing the extent of Coca-Cola\u2019s contribution to plastic pollution.<\/p>\n<p>The report,\u00a0<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/oceana.org\/reports\/coca-colas-world-with-waste\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coca-Cola\u2019s World with Waste<\/a><\/em>, quantifies the amount of plastic the beverage maker adds to the environment. Notably, Oceana also projects how much progress Coca-Cola\u00a0<em>could<\/em>\u00a0have made against plastic pollution had the soft drink giant\u00a0<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\">stayed the course on its previous goals of reusable packaging<\/a>\u00a0instead of committing to using more recycled plastic in single-use bottles.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><\/figure>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/oceana-report-says-coca-cola-is-responsible-for-over-1-billion-pounds-of-plastic-entering-our-waterways-annually\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceana, a non-profit organization focused on driving ocean conservation policies at a national level, has released a report showing the extent of Coca-Cola\u2019s contribution to plastic pollution. The report,\u00a0Coca-Cola\u2019s World with Waste, quantifies the amount of plastic the beverage maker adds to the environment. Notably, Oceana also projects how much progress Coca-Cola\u00a0could\u00a0have made against plastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6155,"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":[643,2166,2167],"class_list":["post-6154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-coca-cola","tag-oceana","tag-world-without-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154","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=6154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}