A startling new analysis released Wednesday by the NGO Oceana estimates that 1.33 billion pounds (602,000 metric tonnes) of plastic debris would reach the world’s oceans and waterways annually as a result of Coca-Cola products. Eighteen million whales’ stomachs might be filled with that much of plastic.
The report comes as worries about the dangers microplastics pose to human health are growing, as researchers increasingly connect them to heart disease, cancer, infertility, and other conditions. Coca-Cola is by far the largest manufacturer and seller of beverages in the world,” stated Matt Littlejohn, the spokesman for Oceana’s corporate polluter campaigns. According to a 2024 study published in Science Advances, Coca-Cola is the leading global polluter of branded plastic, followed by PepsiCo, Nestle, Danone, and Altria.
Oceana’s estimate is based on a “business-as-usual” scenario that combines sales growth projections with Coca-Cola’s publicly available packaging statistics from 2018 to 2023.As a result, it is anticipated that by 2030, the corporation will use more plastic than 4.13 million metric tonnes (9.12 billion pounds) yearly.
Researchers used a peer-reviewed methodology created by a global team of scientists and published in the scholarly journal Science in 2020 to estimate the amount of plastic that will end up in aquatic ecosystems. They came up with the 1.33 billion pounds estimate, or almost 220 billion half-liter bottles.
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