Coca-Cola

EQUATE Food-grade PET with 30% recycled content / PET manufacturing innovation adds step closer to circular economy objective	29.01.2021
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Second Ellen MacArthur progress report / Accelerated efforts needed to meet 2025 goals / Call for action on recycling, reduction, international cooperation	20.11.2020
COCA-COLA Drinks giant increases disposable bottles' recycled PET in German market / Environmental action group terms throw-away bottles "show products"	20.11.2020
EXCELRISE Merger of subsidiaries into single entity / Expansion of recycling capacity planned at five French sites	18.11.2020
CIRCULAR ECONOMY AUSTRIA Confidence declining in circular transformation / ARA barometer reveals less commitment among smaller companies / Coca-Cola launches recycling incentives for consumers	30.10.2020
PLASTICS WASTE Study says global brands undershooting plastics reduction goals / Coca-Cola and Unilever reiterate commitment to targets	06.10.2020
ALPLA Acquisition of Indian PET preform facility	02.10.2020
ALPLA New HPDE recycling plant in Mexico to open in H2 2021	24.09.2020
RECYCLING Major firms join "HolyGrail 2.0" project to evaluate digital watermarks for plastic packaging	18.09.2020
VÖSLAUER rPET pioneer converts its entire bottle range to 100% recyclate five years ahead of schedule	20.08.2020
MORSSINKHOF PLASTICS Joint venture More PET founded with Remondis / Marketing of rPET	11.08.2020
RECOUP UK recycling organisation celebrates 30 years / Over 370,000 t of plastic bottles collected for recycling in 2019	10.08.2020
COCA-COLA Investment in CuRe Technology's depolymerisation process / Majority of output from new PET recycling plant in Western Europe planned	23.07.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT NGO report criticises brand owners and retailers for failing to address waste crisis / Study cites lack of corporate leadership	14.07.2020
PLASTICS INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION US chemicals group Dow drops its membership	02.07.2020
PACKAGING RECYCLING AUSTRIA Platform launched to promote packaging debate / Focus on circular economy	20.05.2020
MARINE LITTER Circulate Capital invests USD 6m in plastics recyclers in India and Indonesia	30.04.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT Formation of European alliance for a "Green Recovery" after Covid-19 crisis	20.04.2020
PLASTICS AND ENVIRONMENT NGO Tearfund links climate change with plastics pollution from major consumer brands / Study focused on six developing countries / Coca-Cola worst offender	09.04.2020
SINGLE-USE PLASTICS Will the coronavirus pandemic turn the tide back to disposables? / US moves away from plastic bans / Industry will face “major challenges” in the aftermath	27.03.2020
INDORAMA Joint venture with Coca-Cola inked on bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in Philippines / 30,000 t/y capacity by 2021	16.03.2020
USA California group sues 10 companies including Coca-Cola, Danone, PepsiCo and Nestlé over plastics pollution	12.03.2020
USA Management changes underway for Plastics Industry Association / Plastic bag alliance renamed	24.02.2020
EQUATE Production of first batch of 25% chemically recycled PET has started / European market targeted	31.01.2020
COCA-COLA Customers like using plastic bottles, says sustainability head at WEF / New partnership with “Benioff Ocean Initiative” to clean up polluted rivers	27.01.2020