Instead of banning plastic bags and straws maybe we should focus on banning corporations from manufacturing their products in none compostable storage. They should stick to glass, metal, cardboard, hemp, etc.
Can't as maximum profit for minimum outlay is the aim with gullible idiots like us falling for it over and over otherwise which idiot will spend £ 150 per month,month in month out just for mobile just because it's apple?
@@pinxtownington4645 us people who can afford a phone by Apple🤑🤑🤑 And you don’t have to pay month by month that’s for poor people like you Hard-working people like me can spend $1000 on a cell phone Don’t complain they do make poor people cell phones for people like you IT’S CALLED ANDROID 😂😂😂😂
Investigative journalism is basically non existent at this point in time because almost all outlets are bought through advertisement (don't bite the hand that feeds you), afraid to go against those giant corporations and/or simply forbidden to speak controversy by one or more of their own parents companies. Thank you for this work which is such a breath of fresh air!
Can you imagine how many corporations would be made to feel uncomfortable if there were more journalists like these? These corporations don't care that poor people have to clean up their mess. It's disgusting. May they get a conscious. It is absolutely horrifying.
You don't have to buy it, your friends don't have to buy it, nor does your family need to buy it - that's the problem, people forget what's their power in market economy
@@smajliiickaNot really when plastic is used heavily by the packaging industry. Some companies have the audacity to tell you to please recycle their unrecyclable plastic films. 15% of plastic is in textiles too btw. In the UK, only 14% of waste came from households. The rest came from industry.
Thank you for your story. I hope that people watching this story stop buying plastic. Sad to see the oceans and sad that all the companies just made money. I hope that they think about their children and grandchildren and take care of the trash they made.
I’m studying biochemistry in the hopes to research plastic eating bacteria (something that is being researched and invented/investigated right now) or plastic eating plants (removing toxins from soil/replenishing fields) hopefully with reduced plastic use and methods like I want to research we can clean some of our oceans and soils, Currently a lot of recycling goes to the landfill for very little material in return so in theory if I can find a better way to isolate different plastics and junk all at once with one cost effective procedure/reaction, that would in theory make recycling more profitable and reduce the amount of plastic going to landfills by a large amount, with the indirect effect of making recycled products cheaper and thus incentivize companies to use recycled plastic instead of making new plastics, so this last area is my true hope, but any of those areas I’m hoping to research to help with these issues
Plus , you need extra energy , water , to recycle that used plastic . Best to put a stop to endless plastic production , and go back to glass , cans , and for chocolate : cardboard boxes , easier- to- recycle , thin wrappers .
I remember as a kid picking up bottles to turn in for money. 60s lol. I reuse every glass jar and bottle I have, don’t use plastic. I had friends who worked recycling centers decades ago who told me we don’t have the facilities that most of it still goes to landfill.
Big thanks to coke, Du pont and many other mega corps for all their efforts to prioritize shareholder dividends over being a responsible and non planet polluting entity.❤
Used to use glass and be 98% recycled having drivers pickup used bottles. But that cost them money. Could already use decomposable bottles but those cost more. Make them pay for our safety. I don't drink pop or soda so why is my world poisoned by these companies
What happens to the other 50% if they only use 50% in the new bottles and what’s happened to all the plastic that has been collected is it just sitting somewhere because we got five years ago six years ago before 2030
It's a Recycling SCAMdal (not Scandal). Companies just wanna look good cuz it's fashionable nowadays, but in reality they don't give a sh*t. BTW. In the greater scheme of the Universe, humans are not even a blip on the time-scale radar, more like a fleeting micro-second.
We should go back to glass bottles that I remember well, all the companies did it in the 70’s and the drinks tasted better but in the name of greed! They went to plastic..
This makes me sick even though I have been aware of it for years. Reminds me of the way cigarette companies in the 60s and 70s absolutely insisted that smoking doesn't cause cancer. He makes a good politician. He never answers the question, just sidesteps it and repeats his unsupported claims.
@@elylioney6390Coke is said to be as acidic as car battery acid. I don't know if this is true, but it is certainly very acidic, and has a powerful corrosive effect that cuts through grease, etc.. I remember when I was child, children cleaning their copper coins by leaving them in coke overnight. It would dissolve a layer off the coin to make it super shiny. Tooth enamel is a much stronger substance than bone. All soda erodes tooth enamel, but Coke, being more acidic, dissolves enamel the most. So, the acid in Coke would definitely clean a toilet extremely well, but a can of Coke contains 6 teaspoons of sugar, and sugar feeds bacteria, and allow it to flourish. Some bacteria are resistant to the acid, and some sugar would remain in, or on, the toilet from the Coke clean, so it wouldn't be the best cleaner. There are other more environmentally friendly cleaners such as bicarbonate of soda (not too frequently, as too much powder sediments and blocks drains) but is gently abrasive, absorbs odors and draws out some stains. White vinegar, an antibacterial, anti-mould, reacts with bicarb. to fizz for a deep clean. Both eucalyptus oil and clove oil are also antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-mould. They can be used on many things, not just toilets. 😊
Softdrinks is the top company that you can quickly close because its not a staple food and no good use to the body. They can slow down production to decelerate piling of plastics in the environment. Collection, recyling, and recovery couldnt keep up on the speed of their bottles per minute.. Circular economy's bottle neck is in the collection of these informal sectors,. If this are will not improve, shutdown or slow down the production. Coca Cola has hired top caliber people, they can hopefully find ways to clean their mess.. and help save tomorrow.
The states that offer recycling, .05 cents per bottle, do not accept tractor trailer loads from out of state.. otherwise, neighboring states would bring semi-trailers full of plastic bottles to recycle, and there simply isn't a process in place for that. Any company attempting to make a profit by transporting recycling into a 'deposit for returned plastic bottles ' state finds the state imposes a hefty fine or fee that offsets any profit that could be made. In other, don't bring your own trash into our state, the deposit is merely window dressing imposed to provide a reason for slightly higher prices
The crying Indian commercial was one I very much remember growing up in New York City in the 1980s. But recycling wasn't mandated as it is now, it was voluntary and wasn't collected by municipal waste collection. Largely it was the poor who would go through people's garbage to collect the $.05 per can at certain supermarkets. As a side note, the "Indian" actor in that television commercial was Espera Oscar di Conti, a first-generation American born to Sicilian immigrants.
Have You been to India? I have...even Eviani didn't taste the same 😅 But for real, not a single type of water was purely transparent and sweet/no taste. All "natural" "mineral" water , have been bitter or had a taste. And color, most of them. 😐
That's one of the most sane and scientifically literate official statements I've heard from a Greenpeace representative. Anyway we should tax large plastic consuming manufactures to fund the nightmarishly large amount of engineering and research required to minimize environmental harm of plastic waste.
Fining plastic in fish, looking surprized then storing the found plastic in plastic bags tells me all i need to know about the hipocrisy of the envitomentalists😂
The problem with recycled plastic for food grade packaging it needs "virgin" plastic to be mixed in as it loses quality everytime it gets recycled i think it can only be recycled 2 or 3 times before its not longer possible to be used for food and drink packaging, it could then be used for plastic bricks/polyester or platic toys. Its also much cheaper to make new plastic than to recycle it. I swapped from plastic bottles to cans. Its more expensive and thre is still some plastic in aluminium cans it is only a thin film (think its to stop the aluminium from corroding) its not ideal but its the best option i have
It's not 50% it's at a best case and this is being kind 10% per 1 bottle .. and if they start running bad we switch to Virgin plastic which is brand new plastic .. now the company we make our bottles for can still claim we are using recycled plastic and what ever amount they fancy ..cause technically we do use some regrind .. but its very little and not every run .. if we start having to many defects we swicth to all new plastic .. like bubbles and such . And on top of that we are not taking regrind in. the recycled plastic we do use is from bad bottles we made that day and have never been used .. and that counts as using recycled plastic . We are running 3 blow molding machines so it 3 bottles per cycle x3 and sub 40 cycle time to make cute the top off and lay its rubber sides .. but we dont make the tinner plastic bottles .. I don't want to say to much cause I had to sign a paper ... just know very little "recycled " plastic is used and on top of that with food and drink it can only be reused so many times before its worthless .. wish I could say more but don't listen to these companies.. and no I can't say who I work for or who we make the bottles for .. sorry also if you don't believe me I don't care been doing this for 23 years .. I have seen it 1st hand and the company top 3 for sure and maybe 1 in its field..
Wanna see a recycling scandal? Come to Souther Ontario, Canada. Goto ANY landfill site and watch the " Recycle Trucks" empty their haul RIGHT INTO THE LANDFILL. Here are two locations just to get started, Taylor Rd. Landfill site, N.O.T.L.( or its St. Catharines) Waste Management landfill site on Mountain Rd. Grimsby. Same thing. Just watch the trucks empty right into the landfill. The Dump on Kenora in Hamilton takes its waste off site to dump as the Incinerator has been decommissioned I believe. But ya, just to get ya started.
ANY and ALL corporations that sell items in plastic packaging/bottles/jars ARE and should be responsible for that their packaging are recyclable - END OF STORY, fines, fines, fines - if not being done
Very curious if glass bottles were typically recycled/reused at a minimum of 15 times. Wish they had a stat for that. I know plastic has finite recyclability before the polymer chains become too short. Reduce, resuse, recycle. Recycle is the very last option. They should be looking at reduce first.
The glass bottles are rather sturdy and can be refilled much more than 15 times. There are many other clear benefits to glass and there is no real argument favoring single use plastic in any way. I appreciate your comment about the finite recyclability of these plastics, you are of course correct. It would have been nice if they also discussed this in the film.
Virgin plastic is ten times cheaper than recycled plastic. Companies would never want to bear such cost. As recycling only works for high value materials, making the drink bottles with aluminium would be a great idea. Recycling - of aluminium bottles - would work like a charm, by using a deposit scheme. If you ask why aluminium and not glass, this is why glass is heavy and that would increase transportation costs. In addition, it is fragile and that increase the losses in transit and deposit. Third, glass is seen as unsafe especially for kids, and require a bottle opener; both points discourage the customers and reduce sales... Anthony
With the arrival of the 100ml, 473ml and 510ml aluminium cans they could easily phase out at least the plastic bottles of the same size but it's just not as profitable for them! 1000ml and up could go back to glass or go to aluminium as well!
How I think this should go: Soda Makers: "We like plastic better - costs us less, and, in turn, we make more money." Government: "We don't care! Earth (and its life) matters more than you - glass bottles, or we shut you down."
I like how the 'recycling industry police' employs pretty young women to sit in nice offices with lots of plants , in an attempt to look 'Green'. (I wonder how many plastic water bottles they use, guaranteed they have a case at home)
We had a great recycling program. Not so long ago drinks were bottled in glass bottles. That of which you got 5 cents per bottle that was returned to the store. The store then returned them to the coke a cola dude. They got washed and sanitized then reused again. We desperately need that back!
They outsourced the process of waste management. Brilliant. However, it is surprising that the consumers are so stupid that they let them get away with it.
It’s sad but that’s how most corporations think nowadays, they pollute and expect others to clean up and pay for the mess they leave behind.... imagine leaving your garage in the middle of the street for others to pick up, you know that you’ ll get fined for it but corporations don’t!!!??
Keep America beautiful might have had a huge dark side. However, there was and is a clear benefit from teaching people to be more conscious of littering.
Here's a solution, everyone gets 1 refillable coke bottle, that you have to take back to the shop to be refilled, if you loose it or throw it out, no more coke for you 😂😂😂
😢 oh no. Coca Cola has not been recycling their recycles when they were supposed to. would someone please think of the children. Edit: is anyone really surprised that a mega corporation isn't following the rules? Cheers 🍻
The lab she works in is using plastics. I'm against plastics being in waterway, land, and oceans. Seek out products that have a high reuse percentage. Plant based packaging, hold corporations responsible for waste from their products
Dude, if I can clean a rusty lock... Most stuff that'll clog a toilet, is kitchen greace, and that's a base, so something acidic might work.. and it's bubbly😂
A major disadvantage of plastic pop bottles is that the carbonation gas (CO2) diffuses out through the plastic walls. This makes the shelf life of pop rather short, resulting in waste where the beverage is thrown out without ever being consumed.
I still buy those glass bottles of Coca-Cola if it's available the plastic ones don't taste right but in recent years it's extremely rare to get a glass-bottled Coca-Cola as recently the company shut down major glass bottle repackaging sites in India.
In Finland it is rare to see bottles around because they all have to include a return fee (which can be almost half a Euro) and they can be returned in almost any store, and you get the fee back when returning. You can use the return fee ticket to get cash or to buy something else. Nothing else will work, we just have to decide and make a law if we really want something. This is also the reason why you see here in public parties or festivals people going around collecting them with huge bags.
In poorer countries you will see the shops often keep the bottle, pour it into a clear plastic bag and insert a straw for the customer, thus undermining the entire purpose of the deposit system to eliminate single use plastics. It's astonishing how ignorant and complicit adult people can be to the massive problem of plastic pollution.
I'm from the UK during the 60s. If soda bottles were taken to a shop, you would get money for the return. Using glass bottles incurred a cost, i.e., transporting back to bottle factory, cleaning & sterilisation & transportation to refilling plant. This cost was eliminated by ysing plastic bottles. This saves these companies millions because the cost associated with disposal of the now used plastic bottles lands at the feet of local authorities, which now costs these organisations millions. Milk bottles also fall into this category, along with consumable goods that are wrapped in plastic. Go back to glass bottles & paper packaging. There is a place for plastics to be used, but in most cases the use of plastic has been abused just for greater profits.
Plastic ‘waste’ is the least of our problems. Plastic’s ubiquitousness is drastically reducing sperm counts thus effectively reducing population levels- not mention endocrine disrupting chemicals are responsible for the ever increasing levels of cancer and other diseases. The biggest multi national corporations have a responsibility to control population levels, and they’re doing a wonderful job at it.
Watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-WOW! Thanks for the post-very compelling stuff-everyone-should see this. Those-"old fashioned"-green glass bottles weren't just-quaint-but sensible-at least ecologically. Peace!
I’m so sorry that this is being done. That no one is stepping up to stop it! This is not okay! Greed is being put before the health of the people and the planet.
I remember when soda pop came in a glass bottle. When plastic bottles were replacing them, the strogest argument had been safety- since much of American culture tended to discard the bottles any where they pleased. As a child my brother cut a gash in his foot from one as we walked in the water along a river bank.
If you create a deposit/reward system, it has a better chance. Without it, the non-recycles & litter bugs will not change. Volunteers can help by cleaning rivers & roadways, but the amount of people causing the damage far out-weigh us. So, it's NOT really up to us. It's up to Corporate America and state & local governments
You didn't consider the safety concerns of glass: large pop bottles can break or EXPLODE when tipped over onto a hard surface. This has caused many injuries. This was documented by CBC Marketplace in Canada and generated significant pressure towards replacing glass with plastic bottles. Just Google cbc marketplace exploding pop bottles.
Just a moment. I'm absolutely not a fan of coca cola and I don't buy any of their products, but it has to be said that customers also play a big role when it comes to recycling. Only when consumers around the world stop leaving their plastic bottles in the environment will complete recycling become possible.
It was around the time that it had become clear that plastic aint no good that manufacturers switched from endlessly recycable glass bottles and little plastic containing cartons to plastic bottles and containers.
Surely the Solution is all beverages under 2ltr must be supplied in Metal or Glass containers. Glass bottles should be standardised across all Soft drink and Alcohol beverages so they are easily returnable to be sanitised, re-labelled and re-used. It'll never happen though, as it makes far too much sense and may actually solve most of the problem.
In this case it’s irrelevant where it originated. The individual or individual who did not discard the product properly is the responsible party. We went to plastic because the government determined years ago that glass was dangerous. So blame the government.
I hate to say it, but a leopard doesn't change its spots. And when you're a multi-million dollar company, you'll do anything to keep making that money. Really, you should have come to Australia. We have recyclables stored in massive warehouses due to China refusing to take it for recycling any more.
America the beautiful was the drink manufacturers way to eliminate glass bottle recycling back In the 1960’s. Now it’s plastic. Charge more for deposit and the plastic bottles will be recycled
We have the bottle deposits in Canada. The deposit you pay depends on how large the container is. The only company where i live in Saskatchewan Canada that recycles is called SARCAN Recycling. They work in a 2 fold process. Firstly most of their employees they hire are intellectually challenged whether it is physical or emotional and they do a awesome job looking after their employees and secondly they handle all the bottle recycling needs for our province in Canada.
Plastic took over the glass that was returned to companies to be cleaned and reused. Broken bottles that couldn't be used were crushed and mixed into the Asphalt to paved roads!
Coca-Cola should subsidize the fishing industry make the fishing boats go collect nets of plastic out of our Oceans. Save the fish as well spread wealth and create Jobs...
They actually still produce coke and many other drinks in glass bottles, meaning every consumer has a choice at the time of purchase- will you chose glass or plastic?
Ik live in The Netherlands, and here I pay 10 Euro-cent (for a glass beer-bottle and 15 or 25 Euro-cent (for a plastic bottle or for a can). You have to pay the store upfront, but when you return the bottles/cans, for which we have machines, you get a refund. However, soft-plastic bottles, tin cans and glass jars you you have to through away in the appropriate container. This works pretty well, but the machines that take in cans do not always work that well...
Michael Goltzman’s body language (ie dry mouth, deep swallowing, eye contact avoidance, high blink rate, etc.) clearly indicates discomfort with the direct questions and perhaps he is exuding deception. My opinion.
Born in the Cook Islands 🇨🇰 I saw objects in all kinds of fish, life depended upon the ocean, the Pacific Ocean its massive ocean, till 1995 i arrived in Melbourne and noticed all the objects i found in these fish, it’s sold in Australian shops stores petrol stations Cole’s Bunnings, coke bottles, it was then I understood that many of my people had died of food poisoning, how am I supposed to feel about this situation 😢
The American Indian in the Keep America Beautiful advertisement is actually an American Pretendian, not unlike Elizabeth Warren. He used the name Iron Eyes Cody and passed himself off as a native American. Unfortunately his real name was Espera Oscar de Corti and was of Italian decent.
Instead of banning plastic bags and straws maybe we should focus on banning corporations from manufacturing their products in none compostable storage. They should stick to glass, metal, cardboard, hemp, etc.
U do realize cardboard drinks have a layer of plastic inside them to keep from getting soggy right 🤔
Can't as maximum profit for minimum outlay is the aim with gullible idiots like us falling for it over and over otherwise which idiot will spend £ 150 per month,month in month out just for mobile just because it's apple?
@@pinxtownington4645 us people who can afford a phone by Apple🤑🤑🤑
And you don’t have to pay month by month that’s for poor people like you
Hard-working people like me can spend $1000 on a cell phone
Don’t complain they do make poor people cell phones for people like you
IT’S CALLED ANDROID 😂😂😂😂
Investigative journalism is basically non existent at this point in time because almost all outlets are bought through advertisement (don't bite the hand that feeds you), afraid to go against those giant corporations and/or simply forbidden to speak controversy by one or more of their own parents companies. Thank you for this work which is such a breath of fresh air!
Sad
"people start pollution-people can stop pollution". the supreme court said corporations are people
To me it seems like the ,,manager blames the worker,, situation, blaming the people below you.
@@mangotail6808 absolutely what's going on. Heck, ExxonMobil's CEO literally blamed Us, the customers, for using gasoline like what the h- lol.
Can’t or can lol
If we were really "recycling" like they say . Then why isn't things cheaper?
OK, corporations are being run by people (yet), so let them... ummm... 😂
Can you imagine how many corporations would be made to feel uncomfortable if there were more journalists like these? These corporations don't care that poor people have to clean up their mess. It's disgusting. May they get a conscious. It is absolutely horrifying.
Amen 🙏
You don't have to buy it, your friends don't have to buy it, nor does your family need to buy it - that's the problem, people forget what's their power in market economy
@@smajliiickaexactly. Or clean up your garbage afterward and stop blaming it on the company.
They don't care. At the end of the day consumers are to blame.
@@smajliiickaNot really when plastic is used heavily by the packaging industry.
Some companies have the audacity to tell you to please recycle their unrecyclable plastic films.
15% of plastic is in textiles too btw. In the UK, only 14% of waste came from households. The rest came from industry.
I love it when the interviewer lady shows up, you know shit is about to get real.
lol
Near all soda bottles were glass before plastic was introduced, not just Coke.
Coca has the power to make the changes since everything follows the big ones, but plastic is cheaper so f it all.
glass bottles are to heavy to transport around the world
@@nietmijnechtenaam2477 :Bottling is done locally. The syrup is transported to bottling plants in barrels.
whataboutism
@@LucyBashik not this time...its not just coke
Boy he was sweating bullets when she pulled out that document. The subtitles went by too fast though
rude
Thank you for your story. I hope that people watching this story stop buying plastic. Sad to see the oceans and sad that all the companies just made money. I hope that they think about their children and grandchildren and take care of the trash they made.
I’m studying biochemistry in the hopes to research plastic eating bacteria (something that is being researched and invented/investigated right now) or plastic eating plants (removing toxins from soil/replenishing fields) hopefully with reduced plastic use and methods like I want to research we can clean some of our oceans and soils,
Currently a lot of recycling goes to the landfill for very little material in return so in theory if I can find a better way to isolate different plastics and junk all at once with one cost effective procedure/reaction, that would in theory make recycling more profitable and reduce the amount of plastic going to landfills by a large amount, with the indirect effect of making recycled products cheaper and thus incentivize companies to use recycled plastic instead of making new plastics, so this last area is my true hope, but any of those areas I’m hoping to research to help with these issues
Unfortunately, everything is packaged in plastic.
@@juantrevino8608 You have no concrete evidence! Even if it's true, we can send a message by boycotting.
Plus , you need extra energy , water , to recycle that used plastic .
Best to put a stop to endless plastic production , and go back to glass , cans , and for chocolate : cardboard boxes , easier- to- recycle , thin wrappers .
Funny that the Indian in the commercial is really an Italian actor. So the lies started then.
He's Sicilian decent but he was born in Louisiana
What else did she lied about, besides the "indian" man?
I be more worried about the chemicals in Coca Cola like apartamine.
Some say regular Coke is safer than Coke Zero, because it just sugar has been replaced with more cemicals.
@@mangotail6808 I just take the brown on a spoon, without the sugar as it has enough crystals already. 🤣🤣🤣🤗
I remember as a kid picking up bottles to turn in for money. 60s lol.
I reuse every glass jar and bottle I have, don’t use plastic.
I had friends who worked recycling centers decades ago who told me we don’t have the facilities that most of it still goes to landfill.
Big thanks to coke, Du pont and many other mega corps for all their efforts to prioritize shareholder dividends over being a responsible and non planet polluting entity.❤
Stop buying it. It’s that simple.
@@OverlandTT I don't buy it, try telling the other millions of consumers that advice 😎
Yes they use recycled plastic but they creating even bigger problem using the PFAS liners inside the bottle. That should be criminal
Used to use glass and be 98% recycled having drivers pickup used bottles.
But that cost them money.
Could already use decomposable bottles but those cost more.
Make them pay for our safety.
I don't drink pop or soda so why is my world poisoned by these companies
Greed
Make this viral and share it.
What happens to the other 50% if they only use 50% in the new bottles and what’s happened to all the plastic that has been collected is it just sitting somewhere because we got five years ago six years ago before 2030
They dump it and hide it rather than store it likely...
If you start with 50, then subtract 50, then add 50, then recycle that: my calculations prove that its been 150% production!
It's a Recycling SCAMdal (not Scandal). Companies just wanna look good cuz it's fashionable nowadays, but in reality they don't give a sh*t. BTW. In the greater scheme of the Universe, humans are not even a blip on the time-scale radar, more like a fleeting micro-second.
It's a Recycling SCAMdal (not Scandal). Companies just wanna look good cuz it's fashionable nowadays, but in reality they don't give a sh*t.
@cryptonitor9855 you go back to 50.
We should go back to glass bottles that I remember well, all the companies did it in the 70’s and the drinks tasted better but in the name of greed! They went to plastic..
This makes me sick even though I have been aware of it for years. Reminds me of the way cigarette companies in the 60s and 70s absolutely insisted that smoking doesn't cause cancer. He makes a good politician. He never answers the question, just sidesteps it and repeats his unsupported claims.
lady collects 20KG of plastic and gets 2 euros, a german dude takes 8 bottles to Kaisers and gets the same.
Yes but he deposited that money and gets it back. These people didn’t deposit anything.
Yeah but it's not a house deposit. It really isn't a deposit at all. I don't poor shame but damn if you can't afford that deposit 😮@@j.j7380
Enact laws to make glass bottles mandatory with a bottle charge, such what Oregon did back in 1971. now report on other types of plastic use.
Just about all recycling is a scam !
Coca Cola is the best toilet bowl cleaner on the market !
Really?
@@elylioney6390Coke is said to be as acidic as car battery acid. I don't know if this is true, but it is certainly very acidic, and has a powerful corrosive effect that cuts through grease, etc.. I remember when I was child, children cleaning their copper coins by leaving them in coke overnight. It would dissolve a layer off the coin to make it super shiny. Tooth enamel is a much stronger substance than bone. All soda erodes tooth enamel, but Coke, being more acidic, dissolves enamel the most.
So, the acid in Coke would definitely clean a toilet extremely well, but a can of Coke contains 6 teaspoons of sugar, and sugar feeds bacteria, and allow it to flourish. Some bacteria are resistant to the acid, and some sugar would remain in, or on, the toilet from the Coke clean, so it wouldn't be the best cleaner.
There are other more environmentally friendly cleaners such as bicarbonate of soda (not too frequently, as too much powder sediments and blocks drains) but is gently abrasive, absorbs odors and draws out some stains. White vinegar, an antibacterial, anti-mould, reacts with bicarb. to fizz for a deep clean. Both eucalyptus oil and clove oil are also antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-mould. They can be used on many things, not just toilets. 😊
And meat baste for a hog roast
And dissolving egg shells.
If you have rusty jewelry or a rusty chain etc....use a cola product.....eliminates rust.
It truly is the burden of the people you take personal responsibility for their waste.
We don't needs soft drinks! Looking for other solution to low plastic use🎉🎉🎉
Softdrinks is the top company that you can quickly close because its not a staple food and no good use to the body. They can slow down production to decelerate piling of plastics in the environment. Collection, recyling, and recovery couldnt keep up on the speed of their bottles per minute.. Circular economy's bottle neck is in the collection of these informal sectors,. If this are will not improve, shutdown or slow down the production. Coca Cola has hired top caliber people, they can hopefully find ways to clean their mess.. and help save tomorrow.
How about a grocery store discount when you use reusable bags!
The states that offer recycling, .05 cents per bottle, do not accept tractor trailer loads from out of state.. otherwise, neighboring states would bring semi-trailers full of plastic bottles to recycle, and there simply isn't a process in place for that. Any company attempting to make a profit by transporting recycling into a 'deposit for returned plastic bottles ' state finds the state imposes a hefty fine or fee that offsets any profit that could be made.
In other, don't bring your own trash into our state, the deposit is merely window dressing imposed to provide a reason for slightly higher prices
The crying Indian commercial was one I very much remember growing up in New York City in the 1980s. But recycling wasn't mandated as it is now, it was voluntary and wasn't collected by municipal waste collection. Largely it was the poor who would go through people's garbage to collect the $.05 per can at certain supermarkets. As a side note, the "Indian" actor in that television commercial was Espera Oscar di Conti, a first-generation American born to Sicilian immigrants.
lol Dasani is tap water, it’s the worst tasting water in the market
Have You been to India? I have...even Eviani didn't taste the same 😅
But for real, not a single type of water was purely transparent and sweet/no taste.
All "natural" "mineral" water , have been bitter or had a taste. And color, most of them. 😐
sure, you do a blind taste test you couldn't tell which is which.
@@antr7493 some people have better palates than others, to me each brand tastes extremely diff.. I don’t see a blind test being hard.
@@antr7493 go to India. Taste them....wanna spit them out.
Agreed. It actually tastes as though it were boiled in the plastic when processed.
That's one of the most sane and scientifically literate official statements I've heard from a Greenpeace representative. Anyway we should tax large plastic consuming manufactures to fund the nightmarishly large amount of engineering and research required to minimize environmental harm of plastic waste.
I love this lady who did the interview. What a legend. She didn’t let up for a SECOND!!!
Fining plastic in fish, looking surprized then storing the found plastic in plastic bags tells me all i need to know about the hipocrisy of the envitomentalists😂
Coke is putting 50 percent? Hmmm what about the other 50 percent ?
The problem with recycled plastic for food grade packaging it needs "virgin" plastic to be mixed in as it loses quality everytime it gets recycled i think it can only be recycled 2 or 3 times before its not longer possible to be used for food and drink packaging, it could then be used for plastic bricks/polyester or platic toys. Its also much cheaper to make new plastic than to recycle it. I swapped from plastic bottles to cans. Its more expensive and thre is still some plastic in aluminium cans it is only a thin film (think its to stop the aluminium from corroding) its not ideal but its the best option i have
It's not 50% it's at a best case and this is being kind 10% per 1 bottle .. and if they start running bad we switch to Virgin plastic which is brand new plastic .. now the company we make our bottles for can still claim we are using recycled plastic and what ever amount they fancy ..cause technically we do use some regrind .. but its very little and not every run .. if we start having to many defects we swicth to all new plastic .. like bubbles and such . And on top of that we are not taking regrind in. the recycled plastic we do use is from bad bottles we made that day and have never been used .. and that counts as using recycled plastic . We are running 3 blow molding machines so it 3 bottles per cycle x3 and sub 40 cycle time to make cute the top off and lay its rubber sides .. but we dont make the tinner plastic bottles .. I don't want to say to much cause I had to sign a paper ... just know very little "recycled " plastic is used and on top of that with food and drink it can only be reused so many times before its worthless .. wish I could say more but don't listen to these companies.. and no I can't say who I work for or who we make the bottles for .. sorry also if you don't believe me I don't care been doing this for 23 years .. I have seen it 1st hand and the company top 3 for sure and maybe 1 in its field..
Other 50 percent is laundry bottles
I hate "non-profit" organisations, people working there do nothing useful and earn x2 x3 x5 times more than a factory worker.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE INTERVIEWER VERY GOOD AND STRONG. LET'S STOP BUYING PRODUCTS THAT ARE IN PLASTIC BOTTLES. ANY PRODUCTS. VERY GOOD DOCUMENTARY.
Just last year, they stop using glass bottle in my country. Obviously plastic bottle cost much less, despite the impact on the environment.
Which country do you live in, if I may ask?
I would not drink that shit if they paid me and haven't for many years. 120 garbage trucks full of plastic enters the oceans every hour
Wanna see a recycling scandal?
Come to Souther Ontario, Canada. Goto ANY landfill site and watch the " Recycle Trucks" empty their haul RIGHT INTO THE LANDFILL.
Here are two locations just to get started, Taylor Rd. Landfill site, N.O.T.L.( or its St. Catharines)
Waste Management landfill site on Mountain Rd. Grimsby. Same thing. Just watch the trucks empty right into the landfill.
The Dump on Kenora in Hamilton takes its waste off site to dump as the Incinerator has been decommissioned I believe.
But ya, just to get ya started.
ANY and ALL corporations that sell items in plastic packaging/bottles/jars ARE and should be responsible for that their packaging are recyclable - END OF STORY, fines, fines, fines - if not being done
Very curious if glass bottles were typically recycled/reused at a minimum of 15 times. Wish they had a stat for that.
I know plastic has finite recyclability before the polymer chains become too short. Reduce, resuse, recycle. Recycle is the very last option. They should be looking at reduce first.
The glass bottles are rather sturdy and can be refilled much more than 15 times. There are many other clear benefits to glass and there is no real argument favoring single use plastic in any way.
I appreciate your comment about the finite recyclability of these plastics, you are of course correct. It would have been nice if they also discussed this in the film.
Virgin plastic is ten times cheaper than recycled plastic. Companies would never want to bear such cost.
As recycling only works for high value materials, making the drink bottles with aluminium would be a great idea. Recycling - of aluminium bottles - would work like a charm, by using a deposit scheme.
If you ask why aluminium and not glass, this is why glass is heavy and that would increase transportation costs. In addition, it is fragile and that increase the losses in transit and deposit.
Third, glass is seen as unsafe especially for kids, and require a bottle opener; both points discourage the customers and reduce sales...
Anthony
With the arrival of the 100ml, 473ml and 510ml aluminium cans they could easily phase out at least the plastic bottles of the same size but it's just not as profitable for them!
1000ml and up could go back to glass or go to aluminium as well!
He will not admite he doesnt want 100% recycling as the un target is.
You're correct.
I'm glad she has him in the 'hor seat" ,because he's lying.
Recycling is fine if they use glass like they used to. It works perfectly.
They should do away with the plastic bottles completely. I have not bought Coke Cola products in years because of their politics here in the USA.
1:01 That’s a bar plug. Probably came off a metal chair.
Yes!
Yep seen them everywhere when assembling furniture
How I think this should go:
Soda Makers: "We like plastic better - costs us less, and, in turn, we make more money."
Government: "We don't care! Earth (and its life) matters more than you - glass bottles, or we shut you down."
Any corporation that creats a product, needs to have a recycle program.
I like how the 'recycling industry police' employs pretty young women to sit in nice offices with lots of plants , in an attempt to look 'Green'. (I wonder how many plastic water bottles they use, guaranteed they have a case at home)
We had a great recycling program. Not so long ago drinks were bottled in glass bottles. That of which you got 5 cents per bottle that was returned to the store. The store then returned them to the coke a cola dude. They got washed and sanitized then reused again.
We desperately need that back!
I remember 2cents a bottle in the 60s in southern ontario off lake Erie
They outsourced the process of waste management. Brilliant. However, it is surprising that the consumers are so stupid that they let them get away with it.
It’s sad but that’s how most corporations think nowadays, they pollute and expect others to clean up and pay for the mess they leave behind.... imagine leaving your garage in the middle of the street for others to pick up, you know that you’ ll get fined for it but corporations don’t!!!??
Keep America beautiful might have had a huge dark side. However, there was and is a clear benefit from teaching people to be more conscious of littering.
Thanks
A world without waste means everyone gets a juice bottle, refill with their sodas and life goes on, Coca Cola brings tankers of coke lol
The words of Coca Cola means nothing. Only money talks
Here's a solution, everyone gets 1 refillable coke bottle, that you have to take back to the shop to be refilled, if you loose it or throw it out, no more coke for you 😂😂😂
😢 oh no. Coca Cola has not been recycling their recycles when they were supposed to. would someone please think of the children.
Edit: is anyone really surprised that a mega corporation isn't following the rules?
Cheers 🍻
i remember that supposedly a glass bottle exploded and caused damage and injury to someone, that lawyers where going to sue
Beautiful documentary 😊
The lab she works in is using plastics. I'm against plastics being in waterway, land, and oceans.
Seek out products that have a high reuse percentage. Plant based packaging, hold corporations responsible for waste from their products
Anyone drinking something (coke) that can clean a toilet 🚽 is in trouble
Dude, if I can clean a rusty lock... Most stuff that'll clog a toilet, is kitchen greace, and that's a base, so something acidic might work.. and it's bubbly😂
I used it to clean off my battery terminals, then finished drinking the rest of the soda
A major disadvantage of plastic pop bottles is that the carbonation gas (CO2) diffuses out through the plastic walls. This makes the shelf life of pop rather short, resulting in waste where the beverage is thrown out without ever being consumed.
DURTY BASTERDS!!!
I still buy those glass bottles of Coca-Cola if it's available the plastic ones don't taste right but in recent years it's extremely rare to get a glass-bottled Coca-Cola as recently the company shut down major glass bottle repackaging sites in India.
In Finland it is rare to see bottles around because they all have to include a return fee (which can be almost half a Euro) and they can be returned in almost any store, and you get the fee back when returning. You can use the return fee ticket to get cash or to buy something else.
Nothing else will work, we just have to decide and make a law if we really want something.
This is also the reason why you see here in public parties or festivals people going around collecting them with huge bags.
That is a super efficient way to immediately give them value.
In poorer countries you will see the shops often keep the bottle, pour it into a clear plastic bag and insert a straw for the customer, thus undermining the entire purpose of the deposit system to eliminate single use plastics. It's astonishing how ignorant and complicit adult people can be to the massive problem of plastic pollution.
I'm from the UK during the 60s. If soda bottles were taken to a shop, you would get money for the return. Using glass bottles incurred a cost, i.e., transporting back to bottle factory, cleaning & sterilisation & transportation to refilling plant. This cost was eliminated by ysing plastic bottles. This saves these companies millions because the cost associated with disposal of the now used plastic bottles lands at the feet of local authorities, which now costs these organisations millions. Milk bottles also fall into this category, along with consumable goods that are wrapped in plastic. Go back to glass bottles & paper packaging. There is a place for plastics to be used, but in most cases the use of plastic has been abused just for greater profits.
Plastic ‘waste’ is the least of our problems. Plastic’s ubiquitousness is drastically reducing sperm counts thus effectively reducing population levels- not mention endocrine disrupting chemicals are responsible for the ever increasing levels of cancer and other diseases. The biggest multi national corporations have a responsibility to control population levels, and they’re doing a wonderful job at it.
Watching from the State of Rhode Island in the U.S.-WOW! Thanks for the post-very compelling stuff-everyone-should see this. Those-"old fashioned"-green glass bottles weren't just-quaint-but sensible-at least ecologically. Peace!
Every time you drink from a bottle, you get plastic in your body too. They found plastic swimming around in them, and wrote about it, not long ago
I’m so sorry that this is being done. That no one is stepping up to stop it! This is not okay!
Greed is being put before the health of the people and the planet.
I remember when soda pop came in a glass bottle. When plastic bottles were replacing them, the strogest argument had been safety- since much of American culture tended to discard the bottles any where they pleased. As a child my brother cut a gash in his foot from one as we walked in the water along a river bank.
Within the last 6 years Coke Eswatini (Swaziland) changed their plant from reusable glass bottles to plastic bottles
Companies are destroying the planet for profit 😢😢😢
It’s going to look like mars
Exactly. And normal citizens are being blamed and have to pay for it.
If you create a deposit/reward system, it has a better chance. Without it, the non-recycles & litter bugs will not change. Volunteers can help by cleaning rivers & roadways, but the amount of people causing the damage far out-weigh us. So, it's NOT really up to us. It's up to Corporate America and state & local governments
You didn't consider the safety concerns of glass: large pop bottles can break or EXPLODE when tipped over onto a hard surface. This has caused many injuries. This was documented by CBC Marketplace in Canada and generated significant pressure towards replacing glass with plastic bottles. Just Google cbc marketplace exploding pop bottles.
Just a moment. I'm absolutely not a fan of coca cola and I don't buy any of their products, but it has to be said that customers also play a big role when it comes to recycling. Only when consumers around the world stop leaving their plastic bottles in the environment will complete recycling become possible.
I’d like to know the difference in fossil fuel consumption and emissions when transporting glass vs plastic bottles.
Why is it surprising that companies put profit before any other consideration ? They HAVE to BY LAW.
They don’t have deposit systems in America yet?? In EU we’ve had it forever.
One way is to get a machine that puts co2 in your drinks. You can reduce the plastic by quite a bit. Its a start.
It was around the time that it had become clear that plastic aint no good that manufacturers switched from endlessly recycable glass bottles and little plastic containing cartons to plastic bottles and containers.
Surely the Solution is all beverages under 2ltr must be supplied in Metal or Glass containers. Glass bottles should be standardised across all Soft drink and Alcohol beverages so they are easily returnable to be sanitised, re-labelled and re-used. It'll never happen though, as it makes far too much sense and may actually solve most of the problem.
Tanzania - separate the plastics from the waste! Why should they have to sort out the plastics?
Since corporations are people now, environmental issues are their responsibility too!
In this case it’s irrelevant where it originated. The individual or individual who did not discard the product properly is the responsible party. We went to plastic because the government determined years ago that glass was dangerous. So blame the government.
What a mess. Make creation of these new plastics illegal, keep recycling what is currently out there, and enact laws to switch back to glass.
The product itself is rubbish. Sugar and chemicals, sitting in plastic for who knows how long.
We have a soda machine and it saves on so much plastic.
What’s amazing is, I didn’t buy any of those 120 billion bottles.
I hate to say it, but a leopard doesn't change its spots.
And when you're a multi-million dollar company, you'll do anything to keep making that money.
Really, you should have come to Australia.
We have recyclables stored in massive warehouses due to China refusing to take it for recycling any more.
America the beautiful was the drink manufacturers way to eliminate glass bottle recycling back In the 1960’s. Now it’s plastic. Charge more for deposit and the plastic bottles will be recycled
We have the bottle deposits in Canada. The deposit you pay depends on how large the container is. The only company where i live in Saskatchewan Canada that recycles is called SARCAN Recycling. They work in a 2 fold process. Firstly most of their employees they hire are intellectually challenged whether it is physical or emotional and they do a awesome job looking after their employees and secondly they handle all the bottle recycling needs for our province in Canada.
Plastic took over the glass that was returned to companies to be cleaned and reused. Broken bottles that couldn't be used were crushed and mixed into the Asphalt to paved roads!
Coca-Cola should subsidize the fishing industry make the fishing boats go collect nets of plastic out of our Oceans. Save the fish as well spread wealth and create Jobs...
Agreed imagine how many ships and jobs they could create with the money used to mask the problem
They actually still produce coke and many other drinks in glass bottles, meaning every consumer has a choice at the time of purchase- will you chose glass or plastic?
I don't drink sodas. No bottled water either. Nope, not at my home. Just a big waste of money and resources. Completely unnecessary.
Ik live in The Netherlands, and here I pay 10 Euro-cent (for a glass beer-bottle and 15 or 25 Euro-cent (for a plastic bottle or for a can). You have to pay the store upfront, but when you return the bottles/cans, for which we have machines, you get a refund. However, soft-plastic bottles, tin cans and glass jars you you have to through away in the appropriate container. This works pretty well, but the machines that take in cans do not always work that well...
Michael Goltzman’s body language (ie dry mouth, deep swallowing, eye contact avoidance, high blink rate, etc.) clearly indicates discomfort with the direct questions and perhaps he is exuding deception. My opinion.
Born in the Cook Islands 🇨🇰 I saw objects in all kinds of fish, life depended upon the ocean, the Pacific Ocean its massive ocean, till 1995 i arrived in Melbourne and noticed all the objects i found in these fish, it’s sold in Australian shops stores petrol stations Cole’s Bunnings, coke bottles, it was then I understood that many of my people had died of food poisoning, how am I supposed to feel about this situation 😢
The American Indian in the Keep America Beautiful advertisement is actually an American Pretendian, not unlike Elizabeth Warren. He used the name Iron Eyes Cody and passed himself off as a native American. Unfortunately his real name was Espera Oscar de Corti and was of Italian decent.
Put a deposit fee on each bottle. That will help reduce trash.
We have deposits in NY state - everything is still bought and sold in plastic.
Never again i Will by Coca-Cola