But keep using your wooden straws, folks. Remember that Reduce Reuse Recycle was created by the plastics manufacturing industry in the 1970s to subtly shift ownership onto the consumer. And by god did it ever work!!

Can’t say I’m surprised by the push to plastics given the 25% tariff on aluminum.

Refundable deposit systems do help with getting bottles and cans properly sorted out and recycled. (Germany does it better making single use plastic bottles a higher deposit than bottles that can be reused).

Oregon has a $0.10 bounty deposit on each can and bottle. Seriously encourages returning them properly.

But to be fair, it’s not Coca-Cola dumping the plastic, it’s Coca-Cola consumers dumping the plastic.