How We Recycle Nicole Smith Customer Sustainability Program Director Coca-Cola North America
95% 70% 45 BILLION Reduce Recover landfill diversion Reuse Renew recycled content In 2012 alone, our light-weighting efforts eliminated the use of 57 Million pounds of packaging. We aim to: Advance consumer recycling programs that support the collection and recovery of beverage packaging materials. Our goal is 50 percent recovery by 2015. Source 25 percent of our PET plastic from recycled or renewable material by 2015. Recover the equivalent of 100 percent of the containers we produce by 2020 Achieve 100 percent landfill diversion from our facilities by 2020 45 BILLION
Reach a 75% Recovery Rate in Developed markets of the equivalent bottles and cans we introduce into the marketplace
Partnering to Improve Recycling 900,000 carts/bins 840+ communities 530+ million pounds
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much -Helen Keller