Coca-cola and Pepsico CEO speaks about plastic reduction

HospiBuz Desk

We rarely found a home whose kitchen does not own a corner of plastic bottles. From the dining table to bags, from buses to phones, laptop to office everything is made up of plastic, it is nearly impossible to imagine a world without plastic.
We purchase plastic bottles just for our selfish mean without even thinking once about its effects on the environment. Reducing the use of plastic has been one of the major trends in Asian countries nowadays. China has been the hub of garbage for many years.
Many major food and beverages brands have put goals and commitments into place in response to this trend. Pepsico is one of these, with its performance with purpose 2025 goal that aims to design all of its packagings to be recyclable, compostable or biodegradable amongst other things.

However, the statistics are very scary.
From its beginning in 1950 global plastic production has increased dramatically from 2 million tonnes to 380 million tonnes in 2015. One million plastic bottles are being sold every minute which is nearly 20,000 every second.

Coca-cola and Pepsi agree plastic waste is a problem, but the solution is more complicated and they are reducing plastic waste. Said PepsiCo CEO and Coca-cola CEO recently in a discussion with CNBC.

About 480 billion plastic bottles were purchased globally in 2016 but less than half gets recycled, meaning most of this waste ends up in our oceans and landfills. Even worse, the report notes that the world’s increasing thirst for bottled beverages, especially in economically growing Asian countries, will bump these figures up another 20 per cent, or 583.3 billion bottles, by 2021—fueling a crisis that experts believe will be as serious as climate change.

Coca-Cola made 110 billion of those bottles. The company is working toward recovering and recycling the equivalent of 75 per cent of the bottles it introduces in developed countries by 2020. Last month, the Atlanta-based company announced two investments in recycling technologies that will allow Coke to use recycled plastics for its bottles more efficiently.

Pepsi is aiming for all of its packagings to be recyclable, compostable or biodegradable by 2025. Most recently, the food and beverage giant has been testing compostable bags for chips in Chile, India and the U.S.

As we know everything around us is made up of plastic, therefore, be a gentleman use paper and discard plastic, and also help the beverage industry to maintain the change with an mission to save the environment, only profit-making should always not be the prime motive. If you are kind so show your kindness towards reducing plastic. Plastics give a helping hand, but they are polluting our land.
So REDUCE, REFUSE, REUSE, RECYCLE PLASTIC FOR A BETTER FUTURE.

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