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Coca-Cola emerges as the worst plastic offender in Tearfund's report.
Tearfund estimates that the open burning of companies’ plastic products in six focus countries spews roughly 4.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere each year.
More than half a million tonnes of plastic produced by Coca-Cola, Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Unilever is being dumped or burnt every year in just six developing countries, a new report has warned. The study...
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