Coca-Cola European Partners ditches plastic shrink-wrap

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Plastic shrink-wrap to hold multipack cans together is to be be replaced with sustainably sourced cardboard

Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP), the bottler and distributor for Coca-Cola across Europe, is scrapping its plastic shrink-wrap in favour of cardboard packaging, it announced today. Coca-Cola owns...

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