But environmental campaigners argue many Coke bottles would still go uncollected and end up in landfill. The drinks giant produces about three million tonnes of plastic packaging a year ...

Some 8 million tons of plastic trash leak into the ocean annually, and it's getting worse every year. Americans are said to use 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour. Nothing is an emergency ...

Narrator: Adidas makes over 400 million pairs of shoes every year. Manufacturing that many shoes ... recovered plastic is sent to an Adidas processing plant. Adidas uses plastic bottles that ...

If the Pilgrims had been like many people today and simply tossed their empty bottles and ... Meanwhile, ocean plastic is estimated to kill millions of marine animals every year.

While many plastic ... Americans buy 29 billion water bottles a year, and for every six purchased, only one is recycled, and it can take 1,000 years for a plastic bottle to break down.

Research led by journalism organisation Orb Media discovered an average of 10 plastic particles per litre, each larger ... last year that found plastic particles in single use bottles but not ...

More than 1.8 million of them have been collected over those 10 years. Why do so many ... when you buy a soda, perhaps, or a gallon of milk or anything else that comes in a plastic bottle ...