Coke declines to remove BPA from its aluminum can lining

[thewayne]

Aluminum cans have to have a liner for sodas, otherwise the somewhat corrosive effects of the soda would eat through the can, which would not be a good thing. At their recent annual shareholder's meeting, a proposition to eliminate BPA from their liners was voted down. The reason? Cost. "It's too expensive!" [/whine] Totally ignores the fact that if Coke made this a requirement, the cost per unit would drop dramatically in a very short period of time.

But heaven forbid a slight lessening in quarterly profits!

http://www.grist.org/scary-food/2011-05-03-coke-bpa-and-the-limits-of-green-capitalism

Comments

[silveradept]

Nothing like making someone else figure out how to make something commercially viable before you adopt it...