LETTER: Coca-Cola is really feeling Global Recycling Day
As packaging waste weighs heavily on the world, the goal of 100% recyclable packaging globally by 2025 is a worthy one
Along with its devastating human and economic costs, the Covid-19 pandemic has put renewed focus on sustainability. The experience of mass human vulnerability to the vagaries of nature has reminded us of the need to live in harmony with the natural environment if we are to survive as a species.
As Coca-Cola CEO and chair James Quincey recently put it: “Covid-19 has highlighted the urgent need for collaborative, cross-sector solutions to climate change, plastic waste and other critical environmental and social issues. The crisis has shone a light on the interconnected nature of our world and the lessons we learn must be applied to help us emerge stronger and get to a more sustainable and inclusive economic future.”..
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