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Has #Coca-Cola company Lost its Common Sense?

2/24/2013

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Coca-Cola, the world’s largest beverage company, is suing to crush the world’s best recycling program.

When a state government in Australia considered creating a 10-cent refund on recycling plastic bottles, Coca-Cola poured money into a misleading campaign to oppose the plan. Then, when common sense won out and the plan passed, Coke sued the government to stop the program.

Coca-Cola runs similar campaigns all over the world. We can only convince Coke to back off from its ridiculous anti-environmental lobbying by raising a global outcry every time it tries to quietly fight recycling programs at the national or local level.

Tell Coca-Cola to drop this dangerous lawsuit and stop trying to block recycling programs.

When plastics aren’t recycled, they often end up in the ocean, where they devastate marine wildlife. Seabirds mistake pieces of colored plastic bottles for food and feed them to their chicks, who can no longer ingest food. Baby seabirds are literally starving to death with full stomachs.

Coca-Cola sells nearly 2 billion bottles every day, and if these bottles aren't recycled, that's a totally unsustainable level of pollution -- there are already Texas-sized islands of unrecycled plastics Pacific. If Coke wants to get serious about sustainability, it needs to start supporting recycling programs, not suing to stop them.

Click here to speak out against Coke’s reckless anti-recycling lawsuit.

Coke says it supports recycling, and it even has a whole website to advertise how much it cares. But all over the world, Coca-Cola opposes public programs that encourage people to recycle plastic bottles.

The recycling program Coke is suing over, which is called a “container deposit scheme,” or a “bottle bill” in the United States, won’t cost Coca-Cola anything. Instead, consumers pay an extra ten cents for each bottle, which they can get back by recycling the used container. Coke claims the program is a tax that hurts its sales, but container deposit programs have been implemented in 44 countries and states, and studies have shown that there’s no evidence for Coke’s argument. Coca-Cola’s crusade against recycling is just knee-jerk anti-environmentalism -- and the consequences are massive.

We know that container deposit programs are the single most effective way to get more people to recycle. In some areas, more than 90 percent of bottles are recycled when it’s implemented. The Australian program Coke is suing to stop has already encouraged people to recycle more than 35 million containers since implementation a year ago, doubling previous levels of recycling.

Click here to stand up for the environment and sign our petition to Coke.

Thanks,

Rob, Kaytee, and the Team at SumOfUs.org

Re-posted from content courtesy of the Team at www.SumofUs.org

Thank you for engaging by signing the petition, sharing and helping to instill some common sense back into environmental policies around the world . . .
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MONEY & BANKING - Current Policies = Recipe for Disaster

2/24/2013

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The Federal Reserve, fractional banking policies, unmitigated greed and a system run amouk. Can we break this cycle? Do we have the intestinal fortitude and leadership to get back to real polices that are not build on a house of cards?

This fun animated clip explains how we got there . . . Share your ideas about what to do now.
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' He who sacrifices security for freedom deserves neither.'
Benjamin Franklin

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Healthcare + Brilliant Marketing Material = Winning Combination

2/24/2013

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I have said many times before . . .the best way to get conversations going about really difficult subjects is to deliver with a dose of humor. Unfortunately this is pretty rare but hats off to the folks at www.rethinkbreastcancer.com for this piece.

Not only is the new APP for TLC brilliant, but the video is devilishly funny.  I predict this will be a wildly successful campaign and go a long way to getting women to actually do the self examinations regularly.

Please share and comment.
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Life is Like the Sand . . .

2/22/2013

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Life is like walking in the sand. Have you shared your wishes on the Citizen Wish List for positive changes you'd like to see?
Please do so now and share this project. The conversation starts HERE:

http://tinyurl.com/CitizenWishList
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It's a choice.

2/17/2013

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All day long we are making choices - should I stay or should I go, with whom, what to wear, what to eat, when how much, what kind, literally thousands of decisions a day. Would it be grand if we got my conscious about creating a positive culture. Do what you love, what gives you joy and the rest will fall into place. Life is short. Why spend so much time on the things that don't serve us, are useful or are counterproductive???
Here's a lovely little video for your viewing pleasure to help you remember to look on the bright side. It's a choice.

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