WJ: Coca-Cola, the world’s most iconic soda company, says it is rolling out smaller bottles in an attempt to help save the environment. The company also said plans to take more extreme measures are in the works.
The smaller, recycled bottles will be rolled out this month in California, Florida and some states in the Northeast.
The new eco-conscious design was announced in a Feb. 9 release from the Atlanta-based beverage giant, ostensibly as a way to combat greenhouse gas emissions that are seen as a major driver of climate change. more
Nope, the price will be the same, but with less product.
This is a money grab dressed up as trying to stop a phoney climate change conspiracy.
If you’re gullible enough to believe in CO2 caused warming, you are gullible enough to believe this crapola.
Not sure I want people this stupid preparing my foods.
I’m thinking the only way this would work is if they quit offering the larger bottles so the consumers have no choice but to buy the smaller ones if they want to buy Coke instead of something else.
If they were really serious about saving the environment they would go to larger bottles, not smaller ones. The maniacs that drink coke all day will just open more bottles.
I’m sure it makes their profit margin goes up or they wouldn’t do it. Just like diet soda costs less to produce than regular. Cargil and ADM lobbied congress to put a tariff on sugar, to make high-fructose corn syrup the cheaper alternative.
GLOBALIST SCAM!
It’s just another way to sell you less coca-cola for mo money!
Fuck Coca-Cola and all their causes they aren’t necessarily mine.
I think paper the soda bottles are a better idea.
https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/paper-bottle-design
Morons never stop trying to steal money to fund themselves and/or their stupidity.
Anyone remember those small wax bottles that contained cool-aid flavors?
Good times!
Wasn’t that the coca cola scam when they downsized from the 24 oz 6 pack bottles to the 16.9 oz bottle six packs?!?!?
They claimed research showed customers wanted a small bottles, hence the 16.9 oz LMAO!
How long before coke is served is 4 oz bottles like alcohol on a plane LOL
More waste for the same volume of drinks. Yeah… that enviro-freindly all right!
Throw it in the same trash container as your old disney garbage.
Just drink water. It’s much better for you.
Rip-off. The wife likes the Coke Zero. I just told her and she got so angry that she says when she sees it in smaller bottles she’s quitting it.
I don’t use that much mixer in my drinks anyway.
And, I don’t use coca-cola as a mixer either.
Bless their hearts. Be careful, though, the tree huggers fought warming so effectively that I’m sitting in the cotton patch in Tx. and it looks like a fucking Christmas card scene outside. Giant snowflakes, rolling blackouts. Quit fucking with the climate Greta!
Bottles??? Cans are cheaper and less wasteful, right?
Only bottles I get are the more upscale brands.
Carbonated drinks release CO2 into the atmosphere, a “known” greenhouse gas. If Coca Cola REALLY wanted to help the environment instead of making a profit, they would cease doing business altogether. Shut down all their plants, take all their delivery trucks off the road, stop buying high fructose corn syrup (corn depletes the soil, doncha know). Cola nut production is bad for the rain forest (or something). The world would be a much better place without Coca Cola.
Same bottle deposit. I recall 2 Cent deposit and small bottles in the 50s. More illusions, for us.
Not a soda drinker, any kind. But, if I borrow a sip or two from my daughter, all I taste is salt. Salt.
Between the salt and the caffeine, is sugar. ugh.
The more you drink this stuff, the more you want to drink.
Change to water.
What a fortuitous coincidence!
I just happen to be rolling out my soda consumption reduction plan. I will be reducing my consumption from 0 to -1.
Good luck with those SJW bottles, morons.
The smaller bottles help make the soy boy hands look bigger.
Smaller brains think they can fool us.
Don’t they already have tiny cans of pop? I see them at the Piggly Wiggly. Seems redundant.
I drink a lot of pop. All brands, depends what is on sale. These smaller sizes won’t really work unless they get rid of the 20 oz ones. Retailers have only so much display space in the coolers at the registers. They can’t put everything in them, so they will go with the ones that bring in the most cash (not necessarily profit). Coke already makes a 16 oz can, but you don’t see it very many places. 12 oz cans are the norm, so that is what people buy. Those wanting more than 12 oz get the 20 oz bottle. No way will they pay extra to get a bottle with only 1.5 more oz than a can, so they will stay with the can. I don’t think these will be around long, unless they (and the other bottlers) get rid of the 20 oz bottle, too. Some still want the convenience of a bottle (it’s re-closable) but won’t pay a lot more for it.
You’d be miles ahead financially, healthy-wise, in every way if you shun their garbage
If Coca-Cola was truly concerned about climate change they would go back to the delivery model they had 60 years ago, re-usable bottles.
Upper management at Coca-Cola has had a lot of nut-jobs in the past few decades.
It’s fucking poison. 7-8 teaspoons of sugar in each can. Is it any wonder why there is a diabetes epidemic? If you drink this shit, you’re asking for problems.
Same great taste, same low price. Now with 25% LESS!
Should be sold STILL and not SPARKLING as that stuff is the cause of global warming. Except Texas they should be drinking all the not frozen Dr Pepper they can get their hands on.
Haven’t had a Coke product in almost 25 years. They started on this tree-hugging, dirt-munching bullshit back then and that was it for me.
They changed the formula about 2 years ago. It’s watered down, and they reduced the nutmeg flavoring. I called them on it. They actually answered it and some low level asshole said no, it’s been the same, never changed.
I said,
1) I know what I taste.
2) Yes, you have changed it, remember ‘New Coke’?
and, where is it NOW? lol
Why is Coca Cola so anti-science? It is a well-known principal that the smaller the container the greater it’s surface area in proportion to it’s volume. In other words, a smaller container uses more plastic per ounce of product than a larger one. But the ignorant masses will applaud Coke for being so “Green”.
Of all the bad habits I have, drinking soda isn’t one of them – I do occasionally drink ginger ale though. So have at Coca-Cola, drive your customers to a lower price competitor beverage.
Speaking of soda/pop. Soda is a predominately midwestern term, while pop is used mainly in the north. efemdy, would you happen to hail from the north?
stirrin the pot,
From Michigan originally. I have found pop is used by people from around the great lakes more often than other areas. Most use soda, except when I lived in Texas. Then it was,
“Want a Coke?
Yeh, I’ll have one.
What kind?
Make it a Pepsi.”
PEPSI
efmdy – Michigan is what I had in mind. 🙂
Where I currently live it’s CokeCola – all one word – that, or an RC (and a Moon Pie).
Lysenko Science now gives us Lysenko Business!
The Politburo must have told them to act stupid.
izlamo delenda est …
coke changed the formula in the early seventies maybe the late sixties.
it used to burn the back of your throat when you drank it.
all my friends stopped drinking soda because of it.
they all switched to beer.
I’m not affected.
I drink my Rum straight.
Do you guys still have Mello Yello down there or do you have to make it yourselves with a septic tank?
Sorry, but OMG is that one of the worst things like Mountain Dew Code Red.
Tony R,
I was thinking the same. Not as mathematically minded to get into the weeds and numbers, but it also seems to me that you use more surface (bottle) per ounce (volume) for a smaller amount of liquid, then you do for a larger amount of liquid.
Anyone able to work up some numbers, that can be spread around to poke holes in these EnviroNazi Greeniac Watermelons?
Let’s see…………..
Volume of a sphere (make it simple) of liquid of “x” ounces.
Surface area of the same sphere of liquid.
“Y” surface area per “x” ounces of liquid.
Look right? I’m open to suggestions & corrections.
Bill & KCIR, we would be great neighbors!
President Elect Toxic Deplorable Racist SAH B Woodman Domestic Violent Extremist :
Since most containers are cylindrical, and the volume of a cylinder is the area of the circular cross-section x length, it is easier to consider The relationship between a circles area and it’s circumference is:
C² = 4πA
Was gonna’ type something….. but I saw Mr. Pinkos post.
Whole day is ruined now.
I haven’t had a Coke since the New Coke bullshit. That proved to me that they were too stupid.
It’s getting cooler already.😂😂😂🥴
The same coca cola that tested positive for covid?
Phony solution for a phony crisis.
For me, it’s cream soda anyway.
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BS! It’s just a way to increase the margin on a bottle of Coke. Bet the price stays the same.
I’m surprised that Coca-Cola hasn’t been forced to change the shape of its bottles, which, If I read it right, was modeled after the shape of some buxom ladies of the late 19th century – an extreme hourglass shape from pinching in their middles with whalebone…something like that.
SEXISM, I say, SEXISM.