On the eve of the 2025 deadline originally set by The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Global Commitment to reduce plastic waste and pollution by 2025, The Coca‑Cola Company announced this week that it has updated its voluntary environmental goals, moving the goalposts from 2025 and 2030 to 2035. Coca-Cola is just one of several global CPGs, including Mars, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive, and Unilever, that have made adjustments this year to the goals it set in 2018 as part of the Global Commitment.
Coca-Cola says that the evolution in its goals is informed by learnings gathered through decades of work in sustainability, periodic assessment of progress, and identified challenges. “Achieving these ambitions will require continued investments in innovation and infrastructure solutions, enabling legislation and further collaboration with bottling partners, industry peers, local governments, and civil society,” it adds.
