Coca Cola's Recycling Scandal | Investigative Documentary

Coca Cola's Recycling Scandal - By 2050, there could be more plastic than fish in the sea. Ten tons of plastic are produced every second. Sooner or later, a tenth of that will end up in the oceans. Coca-Cola says it wants to do something about it - but does it really?

Coca Cola's Recycling Scandal (2018)
Director: Sandrine Rigaud
Genre: Documentary, News
Country: France
Language: English
Also Known As: Cash Investigation: A Plastic Surgery
Release Date: September 11, 2018 (France)

Synopsis:
Every second, another ten tons of plastic is produced. 10% of all plastic produced ends up in the oceans, leading to predictions that, by 2050, there will be more plastic than fish in the sea.

Faced with this global scourge, more and more businesses are promising to recycle, including the Coca-Cola Company, a group that sells 4000 plastic bottles around the world every second.

Can we depend on the promises made by these multinationals? And is recycling the solution? We investigated the company’s pledges and discovered that their promises are as sugar-filled as their products.

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[marym]

Instead of banning plastic bags and straws maybe we should focus on banning corporations from manufacturing their products in none compostable storage. They should stick to glass, metal, cardboard, hemp, etc.

[rattusrattus]

Investigative journalism is basically non existent at this point in time because almost all outlets are bought through advertisement (don't bite the hand that feeds you), afraid to go against those giant corporations and/or simply forbidden to speak controversy by one or more of their own parents companies. Thank you for this work which is such a breath of fresh air!

[boonstein]

"people start pollution-people can stop pollution". the supreme court said corporations are people

[second_second]

I love it when the interviewer lady shows up, you know shit is about to get real.

[janetgordon]

Can you imagine how many corporations would be made to feel uncomfortable if there were more journalists like these? These corporations don't care that poor people have to clean up their mess. It's disgusting. May they get a conscious. It is absolutely horrifying.

[TimS-iv]

Boy he was sweating bullets when she pulled out that document. The subtitles went by too fast though

[sunmiller]

Thank you for your story. I hope that people watching this story stop buying plastic. Sad to see the oceans and sad that all the companies just made money. I hope that they think about their children and grandchildren and take care of the trash they made.

[JoeyBlogs]

Near all soda bottles were glass before plastic was introduced, not just Coke.

[TimS-iv]

Funny that the Indian in the commercial is really an Italian actor. So the lies started then.

[pqrstzxerty]

I be more worried about the chemicals in Coca Cola like apartamine.

[ZoomZoomMX]

Used to use glass and be 98% recycled having drivers pickup used bottles.
But that cost them money.
Could already use decomposable bottles but those cost more.
Make them pay for our safety.
I don't drink pop or soda so why is my world poisoned by these companies

[lisatowe]

I remember as a kid picking up bottles to turn in for money. 60s lol.
I reuse every glass jar and bottle I have, don’t use plastic.
I had friends who worked recycling centers decades ago who told me we don’t have the facilities that most of it still goes to landfill.

[shaunmiller]

What happens to the other 50% if they only use 50% in the new bottles and what’s happened to all the plastic that has been collected is it just sitting somewhere because we got five years ago six years ago before 2030

[ChrisMichael-pw]

lady collects 20KG of plastic and gets 2 euros, a german dude takes 8 bottles to Kaisers and gets the same.

[simplemechanics]

Yes they use recycled plastic but they creating even bigger problem using the PFAS liners inside the bottle. That should be criminal

[kiwidiesel]

Big thanks to coke, Du pont and many other mega corps for all their efforts to prioritize shareholder dividends over being a responsible and non planet polluting entity.❤

[ADRdaniel]

That's one of the most sane and scientifically literate official statements I've heard from a Greenpeace representative. Anyway we should tax large plastic consuming manufactures to fund the nightmarishly large amount of engineering and research required to minimize environmental harm of plastic waste.

[InFltSvc]

We should go back to glass bottles that I remember well, all the companies did it in the 70’s and the drinks tasted better but in the name of greed! They went to plastic..

[ChironKnights]

Coca Cola is the best toilet bowl cleaner on the market !

[rayvarnson]

Enact laws to make glass bottles mandatory with a bottle charge, such what Oregon did back in 1971. now report on other types of plastic use.