Oceana estimates Coca-Cola will release 1.33B pounds of plastic into oceans by 2030. The company dropped its reuse pledge.
  • parpol@programming.dev
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    2 months ago

    Can and glass jar drinks taste so much better to begin with. I never got why PET became the goto bottle… cans recycle so well too…

    It feels like if we can have a 2x price increase on everything and somehow manage, we could have banned PET and had a 1.05x price increase and not even notice it.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      plastic is cheap, plastic is light, plastic is durable. it’s not that strange that PET bottles became the standard