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🔃 During the Coca-Cola company’s early years, it led a waste-free system for fountain drinks and created a successful deposit return system that ensured an impressive 96% of its glass bottles were reused.⁠

⚠️ And today? Coca-Cola is the largest consumer-facing global seller of plastics, producing 134 BILLION – almost one quarter – of the world’s PET plastic bottles. ⁠
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👀 Between the 1950s and 1970s, the company gutted its own refillable infrastructure in the US, opting for single-use containers that externalized the cost of its new packaging waste onto the public and ratepayers. ⁠
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🔎 The Story of Stuff Project's report reveals that Coke knew at the start of the 1970s that switching to single-use containers would be worse for the environment, but doubled down regardless. ⁠🥤🥤⁠
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⚠️ Then the company set about battling federal and state legislative efforts to hold the beverage industry accountable for the lifecycle costs of its packaging through bottle bills and bans on single-use containers.⁠
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⚠️ In 2022, Coca-Cola announced its intent to sell 25% of its beverages globally in refillable containers. But there’s a glaring hole in its flagship market, the US, where the company has virtually no refillables in circulation apart from one small pilot project in Texas. ⁠

⚠️ What's more, in 2024, Coca-Cola quietly dropped its reuse targets and decreased its plastic recycling goals from previous initiatives, doubling down on polluting plastic and the failure of plastic recycling.⁠
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TAKE ACTION TODAY ✅ Join us in calling on Coca-Cola and its bottlers to change the course of history and lead the beverage industry once again by bringing back refillable bottles and supporting state-mandated refill quotas.⁠

✍️ Sign the petition: https://bit.ly/bringbackrefill
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Must be amazing to have Harry Partch's instruments back in San Diego after all this time. I remember having the chance to see them on the east coast when we were on tour one year but we ultimately never saw them - we were so bummed! But now they are back!

EDIT - Canadians can't see what I attached so I included one of the photos of the article and encourage you to search out Harry Partch and San Diego to get this article.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/harry-partch-s-priceless-musical-instruments-return-to-san-diego-after-33-year-odyssey/ar-AA1rPGs6?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

We were searching for a completely different video and found this one made by Socorro NM a number of years ago. It aptly demonstrates what an educational show and/or lecture by Scrap Arts Music is! Enjoy...

Scrap Arts Music in Socorro County Scrap Arts Music outreach activities in Socorro County April 16th through the 23rd 2015. We had such a great time with this group, hope you enjoy the video!