Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Why is Coca-Cola a sustainable company?


From what I saw today about the history of Coca Cola and the production plant itself, Coca Cola looks like a very sustainable company. Coca-Cola started out as nothing but a new, appealing drink to people and since then it has become a multi-national company. The growth of the company was rapid during unsteady situations. Coca-Cola has suffered through many down-points such as the world wars when sugar was rationed. Even if such a thing occurs today, the company is spread out all over the world and can import supplies. Not only do they use large amounts of supplies but they save. Today, at the Coca Cola plant I saw that the company was very careful to recycle everything they could. It is an environment-friendly company. The aluminum cans were recycled, the large amount of water required for cleaning, production etc. was recycled. The company had a system which ensured that their cans, bottles were returned to them after use. We viewed the water being purified before being used again. Coca-Cola tries to promote environment-friendly products while satisfying their consumers. I saw at the factory that any defected bottles, cans were not disposed of but fixed. Recycled material was cleaned and made fit to use. The water was purified and used again. It looked a very environment-friendly company. Coca-Cola produces a variety of drinks including minute maid, Fanta, Sprite etc. It is a large company but recycles considerably. We also recycled our own cans of coke while at the company. We got to know that there was quite a less amount of dirt and pollution, in fact the most prominent kind to pollution was noise during recycling the cans and bottles. To ensure that the worker were comfortable, they wore ear-muffs to stop the noise from affecting them.

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