Coca-Cola phases out returnable glass bottles across plants


The Coca-Coola Company has started phasing out returnable glass bottles (rgb) across its production plants worldwide.

Accordingly, the Company has entered into a partnership with JBF Industries Ltd to further expand global production of packaging material made from plants.

The company had been refilling the returnable bottles since 1932 but said it no longer makes business sense to continue doing so.

Ronald Lewis, Vice President/ Chief Procurement Officer at The Coca-Cola Company said that the supply partnership with JBF Industries will help Coca-Cola continue its leadership in bringing renewable, lower-carbon plastics to the marketplace and move the company closer to its target of using plant bottle packaging technology in all of its plastic bottles by 2020.

“The benefits of sustainable innovation are only fully realized when commercialized and put in the hands of consumers. In 2009, we introduced the world to our plant bottle package — the first recyclable PET plastic bottle made partially from plants. Today, Coca-Cola has sold more than 10 billion plant bottle packages around the world that are less dependent on petroleum and have a lower carbon impact.

“Since the package launched in 2009, its use has eliminated the equivalent of almost 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions – the equivalent of 200,000 barrels of oil from The Coca-Cola Company’s PET plastic packaging.  Plant bottle packaging is available in more than 24 countries worldwide and across a wide variety of Coca-Cola products,” he said


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I wont return it

WHO DRINKS THAT POISON

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wat about the price 60naira for bottle and 120 for non returnable

Chai!!!
So no more weapon to burst person head wey misyan? Well Star and Gulder bottle still dey sha.


Africans are very suspicious set of people, I see them scrutinizing the body of Juice pack to see if it has been injected (pierced) with poison. So coke will have a whole lot of work to do with this pack thing. Unless if they just restrict it only can. Can't even remember when last I held a bottle of soft drink. It is either can or nothing for me.

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you were saying...?

perfect excuse to bump up the price across board finally.

wonder if they are prepared to recycle the PVC bottles. out useless govt no kuku sabi that kain thing

Nasri100:

you were saying...?

Jubilation! For being second 2 comment, he supposed?

Small pikinz full NL sha

Sneaky: Coca-Cola Removes Known Carcinogen to Avoid Cancer Warning Label
Mar
12
2012
14:38
Sneaky: Coca-Cola Removes Known Carcinogen to Avoid Cancer Warning Label
Submitted by Lindquist

In a move to avoid being slapped with a cancer warning label, Coca-Cola is making an emergency recipe alteration that involves removing a known carcinogen from the mix. Showing that the company is more interested in preserving sales than actually ridding its products of known cancer-causing substances, the company chose to remove the toxic ingredient to avoid the warning label — not to actively protect the health of the consumer. The compound (used for the drinks’ caramel coloring), known as 4-methylimidazole (4-MI or 4-MEI), has been ousted by the Center for Sciences in the Public Interest as a powerful carcinogen.

In fact, the Coca-Cola company even denied the cancer link, stating that the findings by CSPI and others were simply untrue. Calling the warning label ‘scientifically unfounded’, Coca-Cola says that there is no public health risk that justifies any change.

“While we believe that there is no public health risk that justifies any such change, we did ask our caramel suppliers to take this step so that our products would not be subject to the requirement of a scientifically unfounded warning,” Coca-Cola representative Diana Garza-Ciarlante told the Associated Press news agency.

As you may know, this coloring compound is not the only dangerous chemical contained in Coca-Cola products. Coca-Cola also contains high-fructose corn syrup, which is devastating the health of children and adults alike. It has also been reported that high-fructose corn syrup oftentimes contains mercury, which has resulted in many scientific organizations calling for immediate FDA action. One such organization, The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, is particularly concerned over the effect that the increased mercury exposure may have on children, such as the children who are actively consuming sodas containing high-fructose corn syrup.



“Mercury is toxic in all its forms. Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children, it could be a significant additional source of mercury never before considered,” said Dr. David Wallinga, from The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy.

Diet Coke also contains aspartame, an artificial sweetener that has been shown to spawn tumors in rats the size of golf balls. In a study in which rats were given the sugar substitute, 67 percent of all female rats developed tumors roughly the size of golf balls or larger. In the 2 and a health year study, researcher Innes-Brown used a dose of aspartame equivalent to that of 14 cans of diet — a number considered ‘reasonable’ by the FDA (a 50mg per kilogram ratio).

Coca-Cola apparently sees no cause for concern regarding the excessive amounts of aspartame consumed by individuals who drink diet soda on a daily basis, just as they see no cause for removing cancer-linked 4-methylimidazole. Does public health come second to ensuring the stability of profits for the Coca-Cola company?

Source: Natural Society


Patent number: 5512464

http://www.google.com/patents/US5512464

And how exactly is this ma concern

This is a good way of handing over soft drink market in poor countries to Pepsi, because many can't afford the price of plastic drinks

Huh? Wetin come concern Nigeria for dis matter? Abi u think say dis development go reach us in 50yrs ni?!
I won't be surprised if dis yeye CUNTry, instead of progressing to the new bottles, we regress and start using Banana Leaf to wrap our own Coca-cola..!

exactly, pepsi will take over

kpozite: This is a good way of handing over soft drink market in poor countries to Pepsi, because many can't afford the price of plastic drinks

=*@

uihebom: Dats nice. Second to comment. La la la la la

idiott

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What was your comment?

to be honest, we dey try for Nigeria. I mean refill bottles of coke and sell it again.Men this guys wont try this in developed countries

Sky-walker:
to be honest, we dey try for Nigeria. I mean refill bottles of coke and sell it again.Men this guys wont try this in developed countries

Don't say what you don't know Mister.

time to start keeping the bottles oo, i suspect will become a collector's item in the future

COCA-COLA PHASES OUT GLASS BOTTLE TO PLANT BOTTLE. Is that suppose to be an upgrade or downgrade?! I personally thinks the bottle-type is more secure and efficient. Although, some medical expert might say it has some health implications, but how many people has died as a result of the carbon?! The problem with coca-cola is in its content and not the other way round. There is too much chemicals in coke. Imagine you drinking a cold coca-cola and the next thing it goes straight to your brain BAM! Like they just hit you with the bottle on your skull. Also, something like smoke start coming out from your Nose. Hmmm.. Then sooner or later you'll regain relief. Sometimes you need God to recover from the shock. Back_to_topic=> i doubt if the bottle-type has any Demerit. They're just trying to economise cost of production. This is because the plastic-type is easily recyclable. But when the bottle gets stuck(broken) on the edge, that is the end. Notwithstanding the fact that the plastic-type is insecure, light and old-fashioned.

They better.those glass bottles can be very dirty sometimes.

ochallo:

Don't say what you don't know Mister.

what are you saying? that i dont know that traders return bottles to coca-cola and its being re-used?

obadiah777: WHO DRINKS THAT POISON

We does

Nasri100: I wont return it

No be by force keep their bottle and win a trip to seven stars hotel in Dubai..

Sky-walker:


what are you saying? that i dont know that traders return bottles to coca-cola and its being re-used?

What he's saying is that u don't know that developed countries also do the same.