Refill Again - How just a 10-percentage point increase in reusable beverage packaging can help save the oceans by eliminating over

trillion single-use plastic bottles and cups.² This shift Oceana estimates that in 2022, the global population has the potential to prevent up to 153 billion of these used the equivalent of 1.5 trillion single-use plastic containers from entering the world’s oceans and bottles and cups, and that up to 168 billion of these waterways.³ To put this in perspective, if we were to containers will become. [...] The most plastic pollution is expected country-by-country, each year until 2030.40 The study in China and India, where Oceana estimates that up to — published in the journal Science — estimated that 19 15 and 14 billion, respectively, of the single-use plastic to 23 million metric tons (42 to 51 billion pounds) of beverage containers sold in these countries in 2022 the plastic generated globally i. [...] Marketing reuse To reduce single-use plastic pollution, sales of beverages in reusable packaging need to grow faster 27 // Refill Again The Return to Reusable Beverage Packaging Systems // The Olympic Games: a global platform for championing reuse Part of the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee’s successful bid to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games was a pledge to cut the single-use plastic footpri. [...] In the coming years it is also expected on the planet and already sell to millions of customers that such legally binding reuse targets will be set across based on the lower cost of refillables in many markets the entire European Union.115 As of November 2023, and the environmental appeal of refillables (in markets the EU is in the process of negotiating a new Packaging like Germany). [...] A 10-percentage point increase in reusable packaging by Oceana is calling on global beverage and bottling 2030 could eliminate the equivalent of over 1 trillion companies to reduce the production and use of single- single-use plastic bottles and cups and prevent up use throwaway plastic and to take the widespread, to 153 billion of these containers from entering our collaborative action needed to.