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The elephant in the room is that shipping bottles of carbonated corn syrup around the world will never be "eco-friendly" no matter how much effort invested in t

• cperciva 17y ago
  There is no such elephant. The Coca-Cola Company ships bottles of concentrated syrup around the world, but dilutes, bottles, and carbonates it at hundreds of plants around the world. (Possibly even thousands, actually -- there are apparently 300 "bottling partners", and I imagine many of them have multiple plants.)
  • dmlorenzetti 17y ago
    Forgive me my choice of words. I erred by going for an image, rather than for strict accuracy. Look out your window. Do you see a bottling factory? Then that can of carbonated corn syrup got shipped to you, probably over some distance. That is not "green" by any stretch of the imagination. By the way, I'm not knocking people for enjoying carbonated beverages. They just shouldn't claim they're being "green" by e.g., recycling the container, or making the container in a slightly different fashion.
    • cperciva 17y ago
      that can of carbonated corn syrup got shipped to you, probably over some distance True. Of course, the water which comes out of your tap travelled some distance, too. The water in the diet coke I drink travelled, from reservoir to bottling plant to distribution plant to store to me, a total distance of under 100 km. Compare that to someone drinking tap water in Phoenix, and tell me who has the greater environmental impact.