Car Equivalents

An NGO has estimated that four global drinks companies (Coca-Cola; PepsiCo; Nestle and Unilever) annually generate half a million tonnes of plastic pollution in six developing countries (China; India; Brazil; Phillipines; Mexico and Nigeria). They claim, that on a daily basis, the waste would cover more than 80 football pitches (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/31/report-reveals-massive-plastic-pollution-footprint-of-drinks-firms). If the plastic packaging was burnt, it would reportedly generate 4.6m tonnes of carbon dioxide which is equivalent, they feel, to the exhaust fumes of 2 million petrol/diesel cars. This, at least, gives people an idea of the size of the problem (but there are, of course, there are many more companies and countries).