Twenty percent of the pet bottles produced worldwide are Cocacola.

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Beverage company Coca-Cola has been found to use plastic for packaging that can make 108 billion bottles of plastic bottles a year.

According to the Guardian on the 14th (local time), the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is engaged in plastic pollution reduction activities, said in a report published the previous day that Coca-Cola used 3 million tons (t) in plastic packaging in 2017.


Specifically, it was not disclosed how much plastic bottles were manufactured. According to the report's estimates, the plastic used by Coca-Cola can produce 200,000 bottles of 500ml pet bottles per second and 108 billion bottles per year.

Coca-Cola accounts for 20 percent of the total, considering that 500 billion PET bottles are produced worldwide annually.

Nestle uses 1.7 million tons of plastic annually and Unilever 610,000 tons for packaging, the report showed.

The Alan McArthur Foundation is campaigning for less unnecessary plastic packaging and disposable plastic use, and more renewable packaging.


More than 150 global companies including Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, L'Oreal, Wal-Mart and Unilever are participating in the campaign.

The report said, "Only 31 of them revealed the size of plastic packaging use," adding, "Pepsi, L'Oreal, Wal-Mart, Mark & Spencer, and Burberry did not disclose plastic usage data."

While so much plastic is being used to make pet bottles, the percentage of pet bottles recycled by major beverage companies has been found to be less than 10 percent.



According to a report by foreign media Buzzfeed in January, Coca-Cola said 7 percent of its pet bottle products were made of recycled plastic.

North American Gov. Nestle said he recycles 6 percent, while Pepsi refused to disclose the figures.

According to a recent survey of six major food and beverage companies worldwide by environmental protection group Greenpeace, the percentage of pet bottles recycled excluding Coca-Cola averaged 6.6 percent.

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