On the eve of the 2025 deadline originally  set by The  Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Global Commitment to reduce plastic waste and  pollution by 2025, The Coca‑Cola Company announced this week that it has updated  its voluntary environmental goals, moving the goalposts from 2025 and 2030 to  2035. Coca-Cola is just one of several global CPGs, including Mars, PepsiCo, Colgate-Palmolive,  and Unilever, that have made adjustments this year to the goals it set in 2018  as part of the Global Commitment.

Coca-Cola  says that the evolution in its goals is informed by learnings gathered through  decades of work in sustainability, periodic assessment of progress, and  identified challenges. “Achieving these ambitions will require continued  investments in innovation and infrastructure solutions, enabling legislation  and further collaboration with bottling partners, industry peers, local  governments, and civil society,” it adds.