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More Refillable Bottles, Less Ocean Plastic
Oceana report: Soft drink industry can stop billions of plastic bottles from polluting the ocean by switching from single-use, throwaway bottles to refillables

Oceana, the largest international advocacy organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, released a report today finding that the beverage industry could decrease marine plastic pollution by 4.5 billion to 7.6 billion bottles each year, a 22% decrease, by increasing the market share of soft drinks and water sold in refillable bottles by just 10% (in […]

How to reduce plastic pollution by billions of bottles, in just one word: Refillables

Though it takes less than 10 minutes to guzzle and discard an orange soda, the resulting empty plastic bottle lasts practically forever in the ocean, far outliving most marine animals.