[username444]

The consumer IS the problem. Coca Cola can manufacture better bottles IF the consumer were willing to pay for it.

But they aren't. Would you pay twice the price for the same coke, but in a glass bottle?

It's the consumers demand for cheaper products, and subsequent disposal, that's the issue.

We could regulate away plastic bottles and prices would jump, and some portion of the population would rightly protest that it's the poor who suffer.