Coca Cola has been labeled as the worlds top plastic polluter, and yet they are a sponsor at COP27 (which is a United Nations global conference on climate change). The blatant greenwashing is not enough to convince millions of activists around the world of the companies "sustainable commitments", as activists are demanding Coca Cola be removed as a sponsor of this environmental conference. But our demands do not end there, as we also demand that Coca Cola ditch its toxic relationship with destructive single use plastics.

In 2019 alone, Coca Cola produced 3 million tons of plastic, which is equal to 200,000 bottles a minute. The company has pledged (which is a non binding promise) to make 100% of their packaging recyclable by 2025, which doesn't solve the plastic crisis at all, since only 9% of plastic gets recycled.

As plastic begins to breakdown (not decay or disappear), it becomes a microplastic. Research has shown that Americans consume between 39,000 to 52,000 microplastics every year and that increases to 74,000 to 121,000 when we take inhalation of microplastics into account. As the worlds biggest plastic polluter, Coca Cola contributes to these microplastics statistics greatly.

Coca Cola has also been involved with many humans rights abuses, as seen in Cape Town, Africa in 2015. Between 2015 to 2018, Cape Town was experiencing a drought that resulted in water use restrictions. Coca Cola's local bottler continued to withdraw 44 million liters of water a month. This is just one of the many human rights abuses that Coca Cola has been involved with.

Coca Cola has been promising environmental action for years, and yet they are still producing plastics that come from fossil fuels and pollute our oceans and bodies. Please sign this petition to pledge to ditch Coca Cola products and to urge Coca Cola to end their toxic relationship with plastic and fossil fuels and switch to reusable and refillable solutions.