Coca-Cola leads consumption of PET bottles

Global Herald of circular economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation requested the 150 companies that have signed a commitment to reduce the plastic disposal on planet calculating something never revealed: what is the volume of plastic consumed by each one of them. Most companies preferred to silence, but 31 of them opened the game, as reported by the American Journal Plastics News. At the top of the list are Coca-Cola and, in your most recent projection, she estimates have used 3 million tonnes of PET bottles in 2017, comparable volume to 200,000 units/min or 108 billion those cartons a year. The rival Pepsico, alas, has released its numbers. Other highlights of Ellen MacArthur research involve Nestlé, with 1.7 million tons of plastic packaging employed and good bodies behind, Danone appears with 750,000 t/a, then the average distance for the Unilever Corporation, with 610,000 t/a. Other research highlights of Ellen MacArthur lining the Colgate Palmolive, with 287,000 t/a and Mars, with 129,000 t/a.