North Korea launched its most advanced monster missile yet. China is readying its 'mysterious' amphibious ship. Russia is advancing in Ukraine while losing men. America goes to poll and civil uncertainty. Global economy is on the brink. What is coming? Let's game plan it.
Diwali or Deepawali is not just a "festival of lights". It cannot and should not be reduced to facetious symbolism. It has Dharmic and spiritual context and underpinning, which must be remembered and emphasized.
Current American establishment's quest for control and "teaching countries lessons" is pushing the geostrategic chessboard in a certain direction. The resultant Indo-China rapprochement may be a watershed moment in this century. A detailed analysis.
World’s PET plastic bottles production is about 500 bn a year. Just Coca Cola alone produces 3 mn tonnes of plastic packaging a year, which translates into 200,000 bottles a minute. Ellen MacArthur Foundation has been working with the many Consumer Goods companies to disclose their plastic packaging consumption under its New Plastics Economy Commitment. And companies like – Carrefour, Colgate Palmolive, MARS, Incorporated, Nestlé, SC Johnson, The Coca-Cola Company, and Unilever are now publicly sharing their annual plastic packaging volumes!
The latest New Plastics Economy Global Commitment Report for Spring 2019 is now out. You can download it from here – GC-Spring-Report.
The other companies also produce a lot of plastic packaging:
Nestlé 1.7m tonnes
Unilever 610,000 tonnes
Danone 750,000 tonnes
The plastic packaging volume that Coca Cola shared for its annual figures, when translated into bottles, equals 108 bn a year. Given that the global annual output is 500 bn bottles, one can see that Coca Cola alone produces a Fifth of the world’s plastic bottles.
A total of 150 companies who have signed up for the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment of Ellen MacArthur Foundation, which is extremely commendable.
Make no mistake that this whole initiative will not reverse the damage that plastic bottles do to the environment, but just slow down what is a very gigantic mess.
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