> And virtually all the plastic produced by Coca-Cola is 'new' plastic made from Crude Oil. To me this is one of the big arguments in favor of plastic bottles.

> And virtually all the plastic produced by Coca-Cola is 'new' plastic made from Crude Oil. To me this is one of the big arguments in favor of plastic bottles. Hydrocarbons locked up as plastic waste in landfills seems far preferable to me to it ending up as CO2 in the air, especially as it displaces the energy and therefore carbon intensive processes of creating glass or aluminium bottles. Of course in an ideal world we'd recycle every aluminium can I'd much prefer people use those. But in the US at least we only recycle 50% of aluminium cans but are far better at making sure waste ends up in landfills so at our margins I'd prefer people use plastic bottles to aluminium cans. If we could get aluminium cans recycling rates up to 90% I think that would flip my preferences and I'd love for us to figure out how to do that. And not every country can afford to have garbage can around that are collected, sweep trash from the street and dispose of it, or even have landfills at all. And in those places the calculus is different.