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Survey finds that 60 firms are responsible for half of world’s plastic pollution
(www.theguardian.com)
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I would’ve expected a slightly different order, but those companies also control about 24% of the food we buy, so… not surprising.
Really? That's exactly the order I would have expected.
I would have thought Nestle to be higher. They are massive pieces of shit that poison children, after all. I figured they'd be putting plastic in the ocean on purpose like a Captain Planet antagonist.
PepsiCo is bigger than Coke, for one
PepsiCo owns Lays, which makes dry food. Coca-Cola mostly stays with beverages these days.
Sure, but some of that food is in plastic containers. Pepsi owns a shit ton of brands. By revenue, they are twice as big as Coke
I'd say the facts speak for themselves.
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Then it makes them four times more ecological in a way, if that's even applicable to a company producing that much pollution
I expected McDonald's to be up there.
Maccies has had paper cups, fry holders and wrappers for at least two decades, and now everything used within the, er, "restaurant" is reusable
Is it different where you are?
They still use plastic straws in some places, and paper cups contain plastic, but yeah they don't seem to produce so much of (plastic) waste
Definitely plastic cups but paper straws for some reason
They mostly don't make their own plastic containers. You have to make a shitton of plastic bottles and caps to make money and there are companies that only make empty plastic bottles and companies that only make plastic caps. Look at the bottom of your plastic bottles and caps for Logos of the companies that produced them.
Did you read the article? It’s not about who made the plastic containers at all, it’s about which company made the product that they contain.
When they hire a private company to make their packaging, then there are no public records on how much plastic they actually buy. (It's in the millions of tons per year range) It also doesn't account for the amount of energy used to produce packaging (it's a a fuckton)
I didn't know why I'm being downvoted, I worked at a plastic bottle factory making millions of bottles per day for many different big companies, including some listed there. They make the bottles and ship them empty to the companies to be filled.