Coca Cola's Plastic Problem: Secrets of the World's Top Plastic Polluter | Environmental Documentary 

Yes she did a very good job.......but the bastards are to big to fall. And they only get smarter after each interview

I dont know why its plastic. It taste best in glas or can.

Nah the CEO guy is a psycho

Also a good way to ensure you won't get to interview any corporate executives in future. I've no doubt there are lists shared that tell which journalists can be depended on for a puff piece, and which names are best brushed aside when they request an interview.

@@vylbird8014 she did a great job, he just wasnt at her level and couldn't keep up with the pressure

Glass used to be used, but imagine all the IDIOTS smashing bottles everywhere. It needs to be idiot proof.

Aluminium is also viable, very recycleable. But still has the economic problem that the cost of gathering all the used bottles together is almost as much as the value of their materials, so there's no incentive beyond the satisfaction of 'doing the right thing' to make the customer put in the effort.

@Shawn Stafford Not if you have to pay for them.

@@JamesSmith-jq2jc If you have to extra for the bottle and you want the money back, you'll get the money back. Less waste. No waste.

@Shawn Stafford The return of the empty glass bottles. That way there would be far less stupidity with breakages.

Cleaning up? That's on you 😆😆

That’s because plastic leeches chemicals into the drink that’s inside which produces hormones and toxins in the body

if the consumers wouldn't buy, the industry would have to readjust. we hold responsibility as customers and so the industry. no excuse for both sides.

All these brands like McDonald's cocacola ect all of them only care to sell their products and foods they dont care about peoples health

" not consumers. ". It's the consumers who refuse to use trash cans or recycle. It's the tree huggers that demanded companies stop using glass bottles and start using plastic.

@Belltown Daisy No your wrong and stupid . Bruce Howe is right it's the industries responsibility they need to be held accountable.

@Belltown Daisy that won't work because too many people are dumb or don't car so Bruce Howe is right. we need to need to punish the people that are profiting from it.

You said it! I was looking to see if anyone addressed the obvious. Water! Water! Water! And I was one who drank distilled for a long time and bought it in gallon jugs, which I use in grow tubs. Then we were blessed to get a berkey for very good price and no more jugs! The big question next to the pollution disaster, is, what does drinking all that soda do to the human body?

If only it is that simple, the geniuses that created sodas made sure that people will have some sort of dependency. the bigger problem besides damaging our own health and pollution is majority of the people dont even know how much water it takes to make a single bottle of soda. behind the scene is a very ugly reality people just cant care about.

@@NM-zu3kj all addictions are just a matter of learning a better way. It doesn't take long to break a habit, but we must learn to replace the bad with a better choice and consistently keep progressing away from it. I was set free of tobacco, drugs and alcohol in 1978 by trusting the LORD and He gave me freedom. If a person would begin by drinking a good water, for me it was distilled, and increase your water intake, then the toxins get flushed out and the craving diminishes.

Why God has to show his ugly head in every comments on u tube. Please stop this nonsense

I cant live without them

Not the companies/producers, but consumers who are polluting the sea with plastic. In poor countries, they don’t have good garbage systems. Once the rainy season comes, floods wash all garbage to the rivers and end up in the sea. Collecting trash in the oceans, it’s like mopping the floor whilst the tap is open. Start with building good garbage collecting systems in those countries, and the result would be much better.

@@smurfiennes EXACTLY.

@@rjampiolo32 no nope,that won't work either.Garbage system in 3rd world countries is controlled by corrupt cartels and you DON"T mess up their profitable system by "good garbage collection system".Lots of people profit from that chaotic & leaky system of polluting places.

They’ll just blame China like always.

@@pietrojenkins6901 yup. Totally agreed. Happens in both developing and 3rd world countries. I've personally experienced the pushback on presenting better waste solutions, especially when it comes to dealing with plastic waste. It is definitely near impossible to touch the waste disposal industry.

Yeah. But it's easier for people to blame the companies instead of holding themselves accountable.

@@samuelschick8813 True!

True

Other countries are poor, is not that easy to implement a return system.

I live in the UK. We’re not a poor country and we don’t have bottle return

I live in Romania and I heard from my parents that during the communism they were forced as kids in school to bring a certain amount of recyclable packaging and that on that time it was this system of bottle return system which was really used Now I am telling you all this is gone although we are struggling to start recycling project and so on but is just not enough for how much waste is produced. For example the Coca Cola A bottle of 0.5 liters of Coca Cola in a plastic bottle is in store about 1 euro, but a bottle of 0.5 in a glass bottle is about 1.5 or even 2 euro therefore most of us will buy the plastic ones. Also, the price drops if you buy a bigger bottle so 1 euro for a 0.5 bottle, but you can pay 2 euro or so for a 2.75 liter so obviously for family meals or whatever the bigger is more convenient. And the same thing goes for everything under the brand of Coca Cola Company from any Soda brand to water or whatever

It is to the people who drink it regularly. Caffeine and sugar are a true addiction.

I not soft drink since 2015 and I happy not to support plastic juice glass bottles

Congratulations, I think you single handed saved the planet. Imagine what would of happened to this world if you had drank a soda! Thanks for saving mankind, you should have a bank holiday in your honour🤣 honestly try a coke, or sniff coke you won’t regret either

@@juliewest6114 your spelling is shocking, makes no sense?

I Welsh so writing in English don't sound the same

We do the same in Denmark. We are known for having one of the worlds best recyclingsystems.

We have this in the US too. Not in all states though which is the problem. I live in a state (Oregon) where we pay 10c each bottle/can and get our 10c back each time we return them.

@@teamhyrule8553same in California

​@@teamhyrule8553Definitely more inscinerators with high certificate ought to be build in USA. At least you can have fuel and electricity out of it

Well good news is that was worms nad meal worms can eat PET, poliester and styrofoam

ok

I assumed you're from Canada. Isn't it suppose to have fair work rights treatment? Throwing in extra bottles is just low. Like a kindergarten child who doesn't like you and just take your sandwich away. wtf. If they dont like you, just serve you notice. Simple. (Not taking sides here)

@@m2heavyindustries378 LOL

I hope you are happier now Sharen. Stay strong and your boss was a sad man with his own demons. Forget about him.

I've seen plastic bags come out of slaughtered cows and goats in Kenya.

You are eating babies? W t a F !!

@@hansnoor9637 😂🤣 noooo 🤢, Ive seen reports that we are consuming the micro plastics because theyre showing up in placentas of on the ultrasounds of the women who are pregnant. 🤣 your comment made my day though

Wow... That just adds to the cringe even more than when I heard the guy say "Indian".

@@Agnelum1 "Crying Indian" is the name of that figure but of course the correct terms are "Native American" and "American Indian"

@@alexanderleuchte5132 I don't really understand your comment.... And I'm pretty sure that "American Indian" isn't acceptable any more.

@@Agnelum1 Maybe "not acceptable" for politically correct liberals who don't care what the indigenous population wants to be called but there are many who prefer this term

So what? It resulted in people paying more attention to environment. That's great. Sadly it didn't work in long run. But there already were drinks that used lots of sugar Fanta for example.

Aluminum cans still contain plastic there is a plastic coating inside the bottles which prevents the soda from creating rust and eating through the can. Still less plastic than a plastic bottle though. There basically is no solution as only using glass bottles isnt great for the enviroment aswell. The problem is infrastructure.

I know it must be amazing being a German. You must pity the less advanced people of the world.

The house is huge! Maybe she was being sarcastic.

@@ann-mariepaliukenas19 maybe 😊

It is because everything is driven by money.

Some do exist, for example Wal-mart has a machine where you can refill water bottles but the savings offered to consumer isn't attractive and convenience is another factor. For the companies I think they would find it more expensive in terms of the logistics and maintenance costs of such machines. For example the cost of renting a space in the retail store, making sure such machine is always full and functioning. The loss of revenue and disappointed consumer if the machine were to break down.

Obviously, they were out of glass bags.

And they couldn't even identify the non-scratching foot from the bottom of a chair leg.

no u are wrong its the industry they build those bottles they sell them to us we are just children that get feed bs lies in media and by our politics coke is poison and they are allowed to sell it to use and make us addicted.

What consumers can do when Coca Cola promotes lobby against recycling. The only thing is to silently boycott ir by not buying it

I mean thats one of the biggest problems with plastics. When they became popular in the 60s and 70s, they were heavily marketed as a recyclable material. And this thinking is still stuck in peoples heads (plastic = recyclable). While that is theoretically true, plastics are not recycled in any meaningful way, rather they are downcycled. People buy plastics with the good conscience that they will be recycled when in truth they are just burned for energy. So the premise remains reduce over reuse. That's the strategy science has proved to be the right. First refuse, rethink and reduce. Recycling is considered one of the cheapest and least effective strategies towards a circular economy. One time use packaging will most likely (i dont know if new materials will be discovered/invented) never be environmentally friendly. I studied a lot in this field but sadly i can not post any links here. But if you search 9R framework you will find a lot of references of Plotting et al. Another highly valued ressource are the reports of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation from 2013 ("towards the circular economy") and 2015. Just to give a quick overview one of the three principles by EMF in line with the 9R framework is to design out waste (by for ex. thinking in systems) and material leakage. Recycling is always presented to the public as being the holy grail, "hey see, we are doing so much recycling". But this is because it is the easiest and the cheapest solution. Little R&D is needed for deploying Recycling systems when compared to designing and building a whole new lifecycle chain or even a complete new business model. So even if a company is using high amounts of - VERY IMPORTANT in house recycled materials, the real goal they should be presenting to the public is their innovative rethinking of products they sell and how they offer the services that they provide. But yh thats no easily feasable nor easy to communicate to the public so little interest is schown in that area - again only in numbers like % of material saved whilst production. Sry for TL;DR

@@RAP4EVERMRC96 Thank you for enlightening me,I will look at some of the references you have made and go from there.Take care.

As you can see they are lobbing against recycling and polluting world. If you really have to drink it use cans. Cans are valuable. Homeless people earn for a living by collecting them

Yup you got that right. Also table salt is the worse type

@@facamp38 no body even cares to read the damn bottle!

@@maxboya my boss clued me in 🙂

Above all it's about $$$ the good ol greed!

In the US too, but the mass of plastic pollution is coming from developing countries, not us. And we also know that most plastic, even if disposed of properly, never gets recycled.