Coke has announced that it will turn all of its 10 million vending machines worldwide hydrofluorocarbon-free by 2015. This is a major, ambitious move, as those machines emit 15 million tons of greenhouse gases annually and comprise 40% of Coke’s carbon footprint. Ironically, by switching to using carbon dioxide as the gas in vending machines rather than more carbon-intensive hydrofluorocarbons, the company expects to save as much as 53 million tons of CO2 emissions over a 10-year-period, according to this Reuters story. And Coke is launching its PlantBottle in selected markets, and plans to make 2 billion of them by the end of next year.

Yet all is not green in Coca-Cola-landia.

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