kerryriveraCoke’s Plastic Switch Sparks Outrage
Coca-Cola ditched reusable glass bottles for single-use plastic in Samoa, and people are not having it. The U.N. called them out, saying this move is trashing the environment and hurting local communities who can’t recycle all that plastic. Samoa had a sweet glass bottle return system for decades, but now plastic waste is piling up. Makes you wonder—should brands care more about the planet than convenience? Would you pick glass over plastic if you had the choice? #CocaCola #PlasticPollution #Sustainability #Safety
2025-06-02
ILLMO
My generation in the center of the USA, we grew up with everything in glass bottles. And tbh, Coca-Cola really truly tasted better in a glass bottle.
06-02
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Matthew Davenport
Would rather have glass any day over plastic, it tastes better in glass
06-02
Seaford, DE
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Jeff Charette
yes I would choose glass over plastic, if there truly is a glass recycling program in place. I also love a soda from a glass bottle over a plastic one! I know it's probably not true, but I think it just tastes better from a glass container!
06-02
Satellite Beach, FL
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Trent Wagner
Im almost 68 years old and everything was in glass bottles until I was 9 or 10. You paid a deposit on the bottles and got the deposit back when you returned the bottles or milk jugs. lots of people would leave their bottles setting around or would toss them along the road so I'd take my wagon and gather them up and headed to the grocery store and traded them in so I could buy candy. The deposit was 5 Cents per bottle and bubble gum was 2 for a penny, milk duds, and lots of other candy were 2 for 5 cents. I ould buy a lot of candy for turning in 5 bottles.
06-02
Elkhart, IN
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Eric Wery
Yes!! Glass over plastic!! When I was a kid everything came in glass!! Soda, mayo, milk, etc!! Then in the 80's they switched to plastic. I never liked the taste of drinks in plastic bottles!! I would be happy to see the return of glass bottles and containers!!
06-02
Saint Petersburg, FL
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Angela Scott
I buy the Mexican cokes in the bottle, made with real sugar. It’s more expensive, but worth it health wise. That high fructose corn syrup will kill you faster.
06-02
Middletown, DE
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Tammy Music
glass bottles is way better they keep screaming about plastic in the oceans and everywhere actually its not good for the planet or the environment all these companies should switch back to glass plus soda taste better
06-02
Hillsboro, OH
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Katherine Oswalt
I would do glass. Remember we could turn them and beer bottles in and get money for a movie or get a candy bar a soda and penny candy. We used to go hunting for bottles. They didn’t have plastic bottles back then. Better times and definitely safer times.
06-02
Odessa, WA
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oldmankentucky
We shouldn’t be eating or drinking out of plastics. Bottles were glass with return policies. Need to go back to that. Glass does less damage to the environment but not to your feet.
06-02
Independence, KY
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DeeKay Hesse
I would prefer they use glass. At least that is recyclable and actually what would it hurt to return to all glass bottles for beverages and some foods??🤔🤔🤔
06-02
Madison, WI
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