Tag: Coca-Cola

Berry, Coca-Cola Collaborate to implement Tethered caps in EU markets

Stuart Mitchell

After winning a prestigious sustainability award at PACK EXPO International last month for this circular solution, Berry Global Group, Inc. is the first plastic packaging manufacturer in Europe to supply The Coca-Cola Company with a lightweight, tethered closure for its carbonated soft drinks in PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottles. Bolstered by the European Union (EU) Single-Use Plastics Directive, Berry’s new tethered closure for Coca-Cola is designed to remain intact with the bottle – making it less likely to be littered and more likely to be recycled. Over 400 million closures have…

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Coca-cola under pressure from investors and environmentalists to clean up its act 

Stuart Mitchell

Activist Investment Platform Tulipshare has teamed up with City to Sea to launch a new shareholder campaign asking The Coca-Cola Company to reduce its single-use plastic consumption by 25%.  This comes after COP27 announced Coca-Cola as a sponsor despite being named as the top plastic polluter four years in a row, a decision which has left many activists ‘baffled’. Currently, Coca-Cola sells more than 100 billion plastic bottles every year, or 200,000 bottles a minute.  Despite Coca-Cola’s “Every Bottle Back” and “World Without Waste” campaigns, the company retained its title as the world’s top plastic polluter for…

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Coca-Cola Unveils New Prototype Bottle Made From 100% Plant-Based Sources

Stuart Mitchell

The Coca-Cola Company has revealed a next generation prototype bottle: its first made from 100% plant-based plastic (bPET), excluding cap and label, produced using technologies that are now ready to be commercially scaled across the industry (1).   This builds on a technological breakthrough announced last week for the first planned commercialization of technologies to convert second-generation biomass to plant-based monoethylene glycol (bMEG), one of two molecules necessary to create bPET. In 2009, Coca-Cola changed the sustainable packaging landscape with the launch of PlantBottleTM (2) , the world’s first recyclable PET…

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Global businesses including Coca-Cola, GSK, & Unilever, pledge to mentor over 600 LGBTQ refugees in the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Tent Partnership for Refugees, a network of over 180 major companies committed to refugees’ economic integration, today launched a mentorship initiative for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) refugees in the UK. Announced at a virtual summit, the event was co-hosted by Stonewall, Europe’s leading LGBTQ equality organization, to mobilize the business community to better prepare LGBTQ refugees to enter the UK workforce. Nineteen major companies in the UK — spanning sectors from financial services, to consumer goods and professional services — have today joined the initiative, announcing…

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Coca-Cola Helps Fuel Atlanta Startup Ecosystem with Investment in Engage Collaborative Innovation and Corporate Venture Platform

Stuart Mitchell

The Coca-Cola Company is joining Engage—a collaborative innovation and corporate venture program comprised of Fortune 500 corporations, enterprise startups and research universities—to pursue a shared mission to elevate Atlanta and the Southeast as a leading technology and innovation hub. The investment fund in support of the Engage program, managed by Tech Square Ventures, is backed by 14 Atlanta-based corporations representing 13 unique industries, including Delta Air Lines, Invesco, Cox Enterprises, The Home Depot, UPS and Chick-fil-A. Early-stage, B2B enterprise tech startups are selected for the bi-annual 10-week Engage Program in…

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