[spats1990]

>The U.S. isn't even in the top 10 producers of plastic waste in oceans (it's something like >30th on the list).

Coca-Cola and Pepsi are consistently the biggest offenders in plastic waste.

The United States should be the shining global role model we are so often told it is, and legislate to force better corporate behaviour around these issues.

At this point the consumer-blaming logic regarding single use plastic bottles is like "Well, we just make cigarettes, we can't help it if people smoke them and get sick."

Not good enough.

[wonderwonder]

Why? Why should the US shoulder the load that will disproportionately affect the finances of the lower and middle class and make essentially no environmental impact?

[spats1990]

Two specious arguments.

1. A 30c-$1 increase in the price of Coke relative to its current baseline will not break the bank.

2. Tens/hundreds of millions of slowly degrading plastic bottles in the ocean certainly do have an environmental impact.