Coca-Cola goes to a great extent to present itself as environmentally responsible company by sponsoring green wash campaigns like Keep Australia Beautiful and Do The Right Thing but it’s all just marketing spin.
When you scratch below the surface you can rapidly see that CoCa-Cola has been responsible for introducing single use containers and closing down recycling all over Australia with active deceptive campaigns against 10 cents recycling refund schemes on drink containers.
A recycling refund scheme is a highly efficient system used in many countries where consumers or charity groups return beverage containers at convenient sites to collect a 10 cent deposit on the container. This system exists since the 70s in SA and now also exists in NT.
Recently, Coke attempted to stop the recycling refund scheme that has been adopted in NT and their campaign used misleading information and threats and was reported as a political scandal in local media. They even tried to take NT to court over it.
It looks like Coke is lobbying behind the scenes again to stop a national recycling refund scheme from going ahead.
We need to let Coke know we want them to Act Positively and support the scheme that would increase drink container recycling to more than 80% almost eliminate drink container litter.
You can show Coke you mean business by printing the PDF poster below and taking a picture of yourself holding it and then uploading to I.Boycott.Coke copy the link to the picture onto to Coca-Cola Australia’s facebook page, and write a short message about how they should support the scheme the more people do this the more impactful it will be.
It's a bit complicated and this is because the action is working. Coke has recently removed the poste a photo option on their wall option because to many pictures were beeing posted.
An easy option is to just write a short message on Coke's wall.
If you want to find out what products are also owned by Coca Cola Amatil follow this link. There are more than you think, for sure.
You can find more information on why Coke is against the scheme here.
