Beverage company Coca-Cola has been using plastics to make up to 18 billion bottles of PET bottles a year.
For the first time ever, Coca - Cola has revealed the amount of plastic it uses for packaging, according to the report.
Coca-Cola used 3 million tonnes (t) per year for plastic packaging in 2017.
Specifically, we did not disclose how many plastic bottles we made.
The report says Coca-Cola uses plastics that can produce 500,000 bottles of PET per second and 200,000 bottles per second, or 18 billion bottles a year.
Considering that 500 billion bottles of PET bottles are produced globally every year, Coca-Cola uses one bottle of five bottles.
Nestle is using 1.7 million tons per year and Unilever is using 61 million tons of plastic for packaging.
Pepsi, L'Oreal, Wal-Mart, Mark & Spencer, and Burberry said they did not disclose the plastic usage data.
The report said more than 30 companies are disclosing their annual plastics usage is a very important step for greater transparency, applauding the data-disclosure company and calling on all companies that use plastics to disclose it.
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How much coke plastic plastic ... "Annual PET bottle size of 18 billion bottles"
2019-03-14T18:27:27.097Z
Beverage company Coca-Cola has been using plastics to make up to 18 billion bottles of PET bottles a year. For the first time ever, Coca - Cola has revealed the amount of plastic it uses for packaging, according to the report.
Source: sbskr