{"id":53560,"date":"2022-05-03T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/?p=53560"},"modified":"2024-12-16T19:03:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T18:03:14","slug":"coke-vs-pepsi-who-will-lead-refill-and-reuse-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/53560\/coke-vs-pepsi-who-will-lead-refill-and-reuse-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Coke vs. Pepsi – Who will lead us into the refill and reuse future?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Coca-Cola recently committed to making 25% of their packaging reusable or refillable by 2030<\/a> – can Pepsi rise to the challenge and be more ambitious than Coke?<\/p>\n\n

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A Pepsi bottle floats along the bank of the Anacostia River in Maryland. Trillions of drinks and snacks are sold in throwaway packaging each year, and more ends up in the environment than is recycled. The majority is dumped or burned.
\u00a9 Tim Aubry \/ Greenpeace<\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n

Coke or Pepsi? Many soda drinkers around the world where both options are available have strong loyalties to one or the other and the rivalry between the two beverage companies is more than a century old. <\/p>\n\n

In the 1970s, Pepsi launched the \u201cPepsi Challenge\u201d<\/a> which invited consumers to guess which cola they prefer in a blind taste test. This year, I want to challenge Pepsi to step up in the fight to stop single-use plastics from polluting our world and to be more ambitious than Coca-Cola.<\/p>\n

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Personally, I don\u2019t drink much soda, but I spend most of my days thinking about Coca-Cola, Pepsi and the way that these companies deliver their products to soda drinkers. <\/p>\n\n

The unfortunate truth for both brands is that most of their products come in single-use containers, oftentimes made of plastic, that we use for just a few minutes and then throw away (or attempt to recycle if we live in an area with recycling infrastructure). This method of distributing soda is unsustainable, energy-intensive, polluting our communities and contributing to climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n

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The video that @cocacola<\/a>, @nestle<\/a> and @pepsi<\/a> don\u2019t want you to see \ud83d\udc40

If industry has its way, plastic production could double by 2030.

Sign our petition to end-single plastic and make the big brands switch to refill and reuse >> https:\/\/t.co\/9wXIcCFU0W<\/a>#BreakFreeFromPlastic<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/cjsBSXW6gY<\/a><\/p>— Greenpeace International (@Greenpeace) April 8, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote>