Op-Ed: Food Industry Giants Must Fix Their Plastic Pollution

Source: https://civileats.com/2023/07/06/op-ed-plastic-recycling-has-failed-food-companies-need-to-step-up/

Author: Ashka Naik

Plastic has allowed many food industry giants to become the massive entities they are today. For example, Coca-Cola generates 3 million tons of plastic packaging a year; PepsiCo has been found to use nearly 2.3 billion tons of plastic each year for its bottles and packaging; and McDonald’s has been called out for generating the weight of “100 Eiffel Towers” worth of packaging waste.