A Plastic Ocean: Coca-Cola's Hidden Secrets 

The best solution is for bottlers first to pay for all the cleanups, then to go back to glass bottles. Glass is infinitely recyclable.

While it's not my habit to comment, I must! I admire the way that the women doing the interview with the CC exec, didn't let him slide away with his platitudes. She had the good interviewer courage to stay on her pointed questions, almost demanding that he gives a genuine answer. Most interviewers take in the company bullshit, instead of fighting.

Thank you for this video. I hope it helps people make choices different than buying and using single use plastic, or supporting Coca-Cola in ANY way.

Can remember when plastic bottles and plastic pollution didn't exist back in the days of Bakelite radios glass drink and other containers. Used to get 3d refund on any bottle we found and returned to our local store, no supermarkets back then.

Big business only looks at plastic from one veiw point: As long as it is economically advantageous we will continue to use it. It takes 450 years for a plastic bottle to decompose.

What a mess. Plastic is poison. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!

They just switched from blaming the consumers to other industries for not finding a way to use their trash. They make more than enough profit to switch back to a glass refund system with room to spare. If you are old enough you know it taste better in glass.

I would rather have glass

Ironically she holds all of her finds in plastic bags....

Go back to glass ( or something equivalent), return to a center to recycle, clean, wash abd refill! When no longer reusable, crush, pulverise and repurpose as sand or something elsewhere. Seems very logical to me!

I live in Australia. Years ago I did a trip to the outback. Crossing the boarder from South Australia to Northern Territory there was a slow reduction of rubbish and bottles on the side of the road. NT had a deposit scheme. SA didn't. I live in Victoria, and the government has just re introduced a deposit scheme.

Spoiler: In 2023 Coca-Cola still opposes deposits on their bottles... 🙂

Governments should charge deposits for alk plastic items. Also, they should install more plastic collecting bins and recycle more plastic waste.

Scottish drinks company BARRS had a good system. Glass bottles that when empty can be sold back to the company.

I don't even buy peanut butter in plastic jars. I make my own yoghourt and keep in glass. ETC.........PLEASE NO PLASTIC

Well presented video. Thankyou

Thank you for this content. Very informative. It’s not only large companies that need to make changes but municipalities. The City of Lumberton , NC where I live has done away with its curb side collection of recyclables. To my knowledge there is no recycling program here any longer.

Excellent documentary, well done!! keep in that way 👏👏

Thank you for this look inside the many costs of plastic and what recycling can be like in a poverty economy. I remember when plastic straws were banned in St Pete Florida. Right before the pandemic. Great documentary you gave us here.

Thank you for this analyses. Clearly profit over planet is the driving force. Have you researched the contamination aspect of an acidic fluid or any fluids contained in plastic? I have seen truckloads of plastic water bottles exposed to sun and high temperatures that likely cause plastic contamination of the contents. What about the aspect of diminishing local water resources for global consumption? This issue is larger than simply plastic waste.

The bad guy is so specific, I wonder who the "Good Guy" is who funded the documentary?

I serve on a festival committee. For our weekend festival, we are selling Coke products. I contacted our local Coca Cola sales representative for portable recycling containers. These containers will be placed around the festival grounds to help encourage recycling and collecting recyclable beverage containers. I wanted to make sure our event was doing what could be done to collect recyclable beverage containers. We also wanted to do our part to keep plastic from entering into our waterways. After two attempts in contacting our local Coca Cola sales representative I was informed there were no portable recycling containers in our particular Coca Cola area. My question is, how dedicated is Coca Cola in their fight to recycle every Coca Cola beverage they make?

Drink water. 200 bucks buys undersink RO systems, make your home your source of water. For food, try to buy paper, or glass packaged. I have a sweet collection of large/med/small uniform jars and steel lids that make great containers, and the adams peanut butter label is paper to boot.

CC and other companies should pay for the clean equipment used in ocean cleaning.

Thank you for this kind of videos. Even I don't buy beverages and water in plastic water... seeing so much plastic and trash that humankind is able to produce makes me act more responsible in my life and thinking of goods I buy.

That black plastic is what you put inside a metal chair so you do not scratch the floor.

A question that needs asked and answered is where plastic is a resource to be recycled, has Coca-Cola invested in the recycling side of the business... bottle recycling plants within reach of mountains of returned bottles... not relying on China to buy the plastic... plastic bottle (or other useful recycled plastic products) manufacturing plants to make things that will push up demand for the plastic resource... Perhaps a factory to supply 3D printers and the supplies of the materials (plastic) to stimulate local jobs... sometimes to get a recycling ♻️ economy to function you need to build the return end... A journalist looking at that part of the cycle...?

We have the same problem with “ Harrogate water” the original family sold the company to Cova Cola as the son racked up tons of debt buying crap Mclarens, they now want to pump twice the amount of water and double the size of the plant. The planning permission was rejected initially due to the protected woods around it, but it won’t be long before they have bribed the local council. Sadly they think they own the water where as in reality they only own a license to extract it. These licenses must be annually reviewed to prevent over extraction and protect our water tables from profiteering companies like Danone who now own it.

I knew in 1969 that plastic would become a problem simply because it was non-biodegradable.. At 66 yrs old I hate to say "I told you so" but.......

8:10 That guy was Italian no Native American.

California has been charging $.05 cents per bottle of water when purchased. But claim you can redeem your plastic and get your money back. Instead it's going to the Newsom campaign fund. They used to let you go back to the store and get money, then retail machines, now there is no where to redeem your plastic bottles to replenish your deposit A good lawyer should file a class action suit to help the millions of Americans who have been getting robber for years from California.

In Belize the coca-cola recycling program buys back all the plastic bottles. Then they take the plastic bottles to the dump and burn them.

Thanks for your hard work

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The best part of that commercial is that Indian @8:22 is a Frenchmen.

The bottom line is it is way cheaper to use virgin plastic and hence make bigger profits.that is the problem in a nut shell. any form of recycling eats into that bottom line so will never happen.

Why is everyone only focusing on the end of the true problem and not the source. It is companies like shell and other fuel selling companies that are the real problem, that is where all the cheep material comes from.

This film did nothing to address why it keeps ending up in the ocean. Who is dumping it there? If they want a circular materials economy, the very first step would be storing materials. The ocean is a very costly place to "store" things you're hoping to one day retrieve.

They, in fact, do not have an alternative container, or they think of making one. Business and profits only. The consumer can make a change, but Coca Cola knows, that in the world there are millions of people that, just like them ,do not care about the consequences of their choices.

Recycling plastics makes no sense at this point. Expending the energy to turn a used bottle thru melting is not sustainable. With the existing plastic waste, you can either reuse it or down cycle it. Mix the melted plastic with sand and tar to make tiles for roofs, for park paths. But they also need to stop producing and using the plastic at such scales.

The real reason plastic is not recycled as much as we think is because of quality. When a company is manufacturing products that have plastic, they continue to rely on brand new plastic to retain the quality levels they want to maintain in their products. Recycled plastic products tend to be lesser quality and if affects the presentation of their products. A cloudy, ugly looking Coke bottle or a fragile gadget made of recycled plastic does not meet their quality control standards and they just don't bother with recycles.

that plastic cube is a bobbin that held a coil of wire used in power supplies to hold the suppression coil that prevents high frequency noise from propagating back up the power line. or it is the plastic foot plug that goes into the legs of the so called "honey can do" shelving to prevent scratching floors and tearing carpets.

日本では、普通の家庭、どこでも ペットボトルはリサイクル♻️対象で、しっかりと分別されている。

Goverments should ban the plastic bottles. Glass bottles must be mandatory.

If sugar molecules bends light, can't you make a hemp based bottle with a layer of sugar or something that prevents the bottle from affecting the taste? Recycling obviously isn't working as is.

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Excellent documentary, DnD the female journalist who interviewed the Coca-Cola man was superb, bravo! I'm very glad I don't like the taste of coke!

The biologist killing fishes to look for plastics .. 😅

Everyone knows you need to solve the root cause of a problem, otherwise it won't dissapear. Essentially, we need companies to ensure their products are biodegradable.

I came here to say that Christmas is responsible for a fair amount of this plastic waste.

Wha ha, that group of people in Versailles 10:22 who know it all are drinking coffee from plastic throw away cups.!!

It requires 40% more energy to recycle aluminum than plastic. So that equates to more CO2 pollution. So do you think you right??

Countries should ENFORCE that, in cases of companies that create this much waste, that it would be required of them to have the necassary infrastructure to deposit and recycle the remains of the product after use.

Does the acid in Coke react with the BPA in the plastic bottles?

I think that they should keep the basic water supply store eg.public utility drainage And pipes properly maintained instead of polluting the water in the rivers or resevoirs and the open sewage spilling out onto the beach or street. Thames water for example

Telement triste, que nos dirigeants n'ont pas réagi plus vite pour protéger notre planète TAIRE. 😮😮😢😢

Prehaps we should go back to using more glass containers

It is time that people learned that almost all of our waste, except for glass and metal but including animal waste and human sewage can all be reduced into oil, very much the same as the way fossil fuels were created. Plastic does not need to be separated. It just needs to be turned back into oil and then back into whatever plastic that is needed. We have a never-ending supply of garbage and sewage. It is absolutely sustainable.

Corporate greed in a nutshell, or should that be a plastic bottle🤔

The "Crying Indian" was an Italian actor in Hollywood.

Dinegaraku saja masalah sampah plastik sudah mencemari pedesaan di sungai yang dulu bersih dari sampah plastik sekarang jadi masalah yang serius yang tak kunjung ada solusi kongkrit dari pemerintah setempat dan masyarakat sekarang kurang kesadaran terhadap lingkungan yang berdampak buruk di masa depan

When doing a grocery shop try 'not' to buy anything that uses plastic containers or packaging. Plastics are sadly everywhere now.

Plastic is not just in fish stomachs, it is also in baby Albatross stomachs, and they die in their nests! 🥺

What a slick con Make a prob;lem then blame individuals for Not diposing of it correctly

It really is the consumer responsibility to recycle. I seen people making green house homes with plastic bottles. Plastic has alot more usecase and humans haven't figured it out yet.🎉

❤❤all people are guilty...drinking chemicals and dumping everywhere

Returning to glass bottles would be impossible because of the volume of products now sold. The volume has to do with the way products are sold at the retail level. We no longer sit at a soda fountain. We barely sit down for lunch. The past three years has ushered in a new era of exponentially more takeout food. I don't know how the problem of plastic waste will be solved since our habits have shifted so drastically. Placing deposits on bottles does so little. I tried saving my returnables, but the small amount of money received wasn't worth the effort. To my surprise, I heard someone rummaging through my recycling can last week. I went outside to make sure the person wasn't making a mess. I witnessed someone wearing a headlamp, quickly going from can to can on pickup night. I saw a lot of collectors when I lived in nyc. Now, living in the country is so expensive that we have collectors here too.

Another prime example of greet before environment… This French CEO needs to swim in a swimming pool full of those plastic bottles

I hope her plastic bags for holding the contents of the fish are .... Biodegradable 😂

If you get rid of plastic all those people lose their jobs.

If not for journalists and journalism this word would have turned to something else in the hands 😢 of the I don't care set of people... Thanks for this investigation

All the nice talk about environment is made by the big companies and politicians, and all the costs are supported by the middle class, that will never change, doesn't matter if its plastic or CO2 we are talking about.

The irony of paying 30p for bag in supermarket whilst 99percent of goods there come wrapped in plastic

Nothing makes soda taste worse than plastic. When I could no longer get it in glass.. I stopped using all dodas

Up to 50% of plastic is burned as an ""open bid market price"" sold at a market price as exciter fuel used in Bio fuel power generation plants what is not used ends in land fills other, is reused reclaimed. pretty said

Plot twist: This video is sponsored by Pepsi.

I appreciate you sharing this video. I have decided not to purchase plastic Coca-Cola bottles after watching it.

Simple solution make companies like Coca-Cola produce using 70% recycled plastic only 30% new material.

For those that do this invest in buying a pair of hyflex gloves they are cut resistant.

Wally’s World when the earth has no more room for trash.

I never understood why we got away from using glass bottles. Soda tastes better in glass and always has.

Years ago there was a $deposit on all containers, that way people were incentivised to return the container... Why is that not a solution?

I have lived under communism as well as now. The difference is that back then a family of four threw out two containers of garbage, and now a family of two throws out the same amount in a week. Considering that the garbage generated at that time was mostly paper and organic waste. I'm talking about the 1980s. I'm not saying communism is the cause of less generated decay, but it's the way to go. Unfortunately, the garbage is largely due to competition and the greed of companies to attract the consumer with shiny packaging. Trying to recycle and solve the garbage problem is like giving painkillers to a person with kidney stone disease instead of removing the stone from the kidney. Sorry, but I use google translate, my english is not very good.

It is more than water in the bottle. Yeah, Bottle in the water...

Glass is heavy and is burning diesel better than plastic. And in cans there is plastic. And there is a lot more manufacturer that Coca-cola.

I saw a similar video to this about a year ago, and Coke has made no progress in solving the problem.

ok i agree its ridiculous but why are all these plastics in the ocean in the first place is the real question , why did not the plastic make it to a land fill???

We're strugling to recycle and sort the garbage and lower the production of plastic in Europe....back in Africa our brothers from Ghana are burning cables and all kind of electric devices for the copper ....but it's good we're fighting in europe ( a small part of the world ) but others.....😢

I was going to a food bank. It always had everything I would normally buy. Except for single serving packaging. Herbs for example, a few spriggs of an herb in hardy plastic! Salad greens in plastic. I actually found other storage uses for this plastic. I was just one person usin this and after a few months the plastic I collected grew and grew. Again, this is just one person. He shake. Manufacturing packaging gets an "F".

The Coke formula itself is also a hidden secret

Make plastic out of something fish like to eat.... PEACE AND LOVE TO ALL OF US AND ALL OF THEM

It's sad. But we're not walking amongst broken glass anymore either are we? How are slovenly people Coca Cola's problem?

I prefer coke, and all other beverages in glass bottles. Why don’t we go back to that system?

When I stayed for a few months in Argentina you purchased a 1 liter bottle that was GLASS, paid a $2 peso deposit (inflation would change this to $20 I'm sure) and the glass was CLEANED and REUSED by the manufacturer. Broke it? No refund. Problem solved. How is this more expensive? The income from missed deposits is substantial for sure. Single use plastic is a scourge and an unnecessary one at that.

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This documentary doesn't really touch on the fundamental problem with plastic: it can't really be recycled. If you take all those used plastic bottles and melt them down, the resulting material can't be used to make new bottles. Plastic just doesn't really work that way and it's a serious problem. This is why we see bags made out of used bottles and similar products; because the material needs to be "downcycled" to make something less structurally sound. It's not possible to have "zero waste" production as long as you're using plastic.

This small house? 6:30

Una solución es que todos los líquidos se vendan en envases retornables de vidrio como se hacía al principio

All soda should be in glass bottles that way if it ends up in the ocean a fish or whatever won’t eat it it could be there home.

Is it possible to have a glass bottle with a resealable cap? I know there are caps in the store but I would never trust them to keep the Coca-Cola in the bottle. The only advantage of the plastic bottle is the cap is so content secure that if you have a plastic bottle in your backpack upside down meaning cap down it will not leak. That's the only advantage. As far as taking them back to the store no problem. Taking plastic bottles back to the store no problem for me. The store won't want to handle them. The soda company will not provide free bags to the store to keep the plastic bottles. The store should get free plastic bags and possibly a handling fee. I'm old enough to remember glass bottles and I can still remember cork Liners in the cap. Not plastic but cork that comes from a tree. Very hard to get out in one piece during a contest. And the soda company would always say that the liner has to be undamaged to collect the prize.