Coca-Cola's Olympic effort delivers new recycling record

Jessica Shankleman
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Company recycles 10.5 million bottles from Olympic and Paralympic Games venues

Coca-Cola will today reveal that it achieved a target to make a quarter of its plastic drink bottles from recycled materials during the Olympic Games, despite drastically overestimating how much waste...

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