No! The consumer is responsible for the disposal of containers, NOT Coca Cola.
And government is responsible for the recycling of materials, NOT Coca Cola (which supplies drinks in glass, metal, and plastic containers - all recyclable).
And government is responsible for the recycling of materials, NOT Coca Cola (which supplies drinks in glass, metal, and plastic containers - all recyclable).
Coca-cola is certainly culpable here, since they have the disposable funds and political power to develop recyclable containers or enable the sale of beverages using reusable containers.
You have disposable funds, you MUST give it to what I deem to be important. Thanks.
Put another way, what happens right now is that (some) people tell Coca-Cola to "do X, not Y", but actually punish them for doing X and reward them for doing Y.
How far should a company go to make its products disposable in a responsible way? They're already recyclable!
So the responsibility passes to the consumer: I've witnessed countless instances where recyclable items are put into general trash (or littered). It's unacceptable! Well, for me it is - but not for many (MANY!) average consumers.
And how does that trash end up in rivers and the sea? Hint: it wasn't Coca Cola company.
It's up to municipal authorities (with direction from central government) to provide recycling facilities, and to enforce recycling for those ignorant/recalcitrant/idiot consumers who can't/won't follow basic instructions.
And it's up to central government to appropriately punish the irresponsible dumping of trash.
That's a long trail of responsibility, necessitating some really tough choices and actions. Easier to just blame the company, right? That's a pathetic argument.
It should be a closed system, from producer to consumer to recycler. That system is incomplete! Fix it!
But at this point we know that the status quo isn't working. Coca cola is knowingly contributing to a system that isn't working. That for me is the important point.
If for example coca cola brought out biodegradable bottles that promise to break down in landfill that's good. They're engaging with the problem etc. If it later turns out that they give off a dangerous toxin, then they need to fix that. They did something with the best of intentions, that isn't in question. But it didn't work out as expected, and they need to fix that.
How much of that recyclable trash is dumped? Why does it end up in waterways, and eventually the ocean?
That's a problem that's completely separate from the plastics industry. It's a problem of individual responsibility - which is the ‚elephant in the room' for so many people in this discussion.
The amount of garbage ending up in oceans proves definitively that humans don't care.
This completely disregards the recyclability of that garbage. It doesn't matter how much effort the producers put into making their products 'green'. The problem is with filthy, apathetic consumers. How do we fix that?