'Making recycling sexy': Coca-Cola ramps up recycled content in drinks bottles

Madeleine Cuff
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Drinks giant will boost recycled content of large bottles to 40 per cent this year, as it reveals plan to 'make recycling sexy'

Drinks giant Coca-Cola has taken a major step forward in its plans to ensure its bottles are made from 50 per cent recycled plastic by 2020, revealing yesterday that from October this year its large PET...

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