Big brands pledge to turn tide on global plastic waste

ARCHIVE PHOTO: A worker passes by bottles of Coca-Cola at the newly inaugurated bottling plant in Kabul, Afghanistan September 10, 2006. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
Initiative comes as public pressure mounts on manufacturers and retailers to pare back the deluge of plastic packaging
By Isabelle Gerretsen
LONDON, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Big brands – from Coke to Kellogg – pledged on Monday to cut all plastic waste from their operations in what the United Nations called the most