{"id":67738,"date":"2024-04-29T09:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67738"},"modified":"2024-04-29T09:44:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T14:44:00","slug":"coca-cola-responsible-for-more-than-half-of-worldwide-plastic-pollution-study-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67738","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"header | w-100\">\n<div class=\"article-header article row mb-3\">\n<div class=\"headlines |\">\n<h3 class=\"headline | font-weight-bold col\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlantanewsfirst.com\/2024\/04\/26\/coca-cola-responsible-more-than-half-worldwide-plastic-pollution-study-says\/\">Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lead-art | col-12\">\n<figure class=\"media-item | figure video | media-item-video pb-3 w-100\" data-video-asset=\"4b03bf93-4c49-4a7a-b8fd-387edec309f8\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption mt-1 px-1\"><strong><span class=\"caption-text\">In general, food and beverage companies are the largest polluters in the world.<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"body | w-100\">\n<div class=\"article-body | article w-100\">\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; Coca-Cola is responsible for more than half of the plastic pollution across the globe, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Researchers found that the Atlanta-based company is the largest branded contributor of plastic waste. In general, food and beverage companies are the largest polluters in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company is trying to do better. It is planning to collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one that they sell by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coca-Cola responsible for more than half of worldwide plastic pollution, study says In general, food and beverage companies are the largest polluters in the world. ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) &#8211; Coca-Cola is responsible for more than half of the plastic pollution across the globe, according to a new study. Researchers found that the Atlanta-based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34432,12406,1857,638],"class_list":["post-67738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-atlanta-news-first","tag-coca-cola","tag-plastics","tag-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67739,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67738\/revisions\/67739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}