[OC] World's Largest Plastic Polluter Now 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference Sponsorneil470 t1_ivtnddk wrote
From reading the source, it's hard to tell exactly what these values represent, but I think it's the amount of branded pieces of litter they found laying around. This does not seem like a good way of measuring the pollution caused by each company.
Edit: Also, this graph is just a compilation of graphs from the original source, just using lines instead of bars (which means it wrongly implies a trend between data points). Low effort and poor data visualization if you ask me, not to mention climate change and plastic litter being two separate things.
mfb- t1_ivtx5vx wrote
It's also ignoring the relative size of the companies. PepsiCo has twice the revenue of Coca Cola, but I don't know how much of that is in products that could potentially become waste and how much is elsewhere.
Wise_Mongoose_3930 t1_ivubbf4 wrote
Also if I buy a bottle of coke every day, and throw it in the ocean….but one day decide to switch to Pepsi, did come just get more eco friendly? Did Pepsi just get less eco friendly?
According to this chart, the answers are yes and yes, but obviously that’s not correct… right?
RevengencerAlf t1_ivvo8o2 wrote
I don't know the exact numbers but as someone who worked for one of these companies in the past... CocaCola is bigger in the space that they both share business in (beverages). But PepsiCo makes a ton of money from FritoLay, Quaker, and other food brands across the world.
aegtyr t1_ivuakfu wrote
This data is neither beautiful nor informative. What is happening to this sub?
Daddy_Parietal t1_ivv1ef0 wrote
Its become r/all bait.
Find a piece of data that supports or acts as a call to action for people who browse r/politics daily and you have r/all bait.
Cautemoc t1_ivw9pk9 wrote
Reddit's moderator system is falling apart. Some subs are completely lacking proper moderation. Some subs are becoming tyrannically over-moderated. Who would have thought making them completely immune to consequences and not employees would have negative repercussion's over time.
skantanio t1_ivtzivn wrote
Yeah the Y axis makes no sense. Was the “audit” conducted in one place? Then this data cannot be used to determine global pollution. And if it was in multiple places, then the scale of the numbers in pieces of plastic seems too low.
its_a_gibibyte t1_ivuo6i4 wrote
Ah, so if I buy a Coke bottle and throw it on the ground, they blame Coca Cola corporation for that? Sweet. Moral blame averted.
Tarec88 t1_ivxfdzd wrote
This. The polluters in this scenario are us, consumers.
rtyoda t1_ivvc934 wrote
Yeah, between that and the idea that “CO2 emissions from plastic production are enough to power over 3,000,000 cars for a week”, this chart is just awful.
2020Fernsblue t1_ivx97lj wrote
Also given that marine pollution is overwhelmingly nets, which are not generally brand attributable it would be helpful to show nets as a normalisation factor here
_AlreadyTaken_ t1_ivwavqs wrote
If I dump trash that makes me responsible, not the manufacturer
dinobug77 t1_ivxh6ui wrote
It’s also not beautiful. It’s just some vague lines on a white page with a lot of squashed up and hard to read (on mobile) text in various colours. There is nothing beautiful about this data vis.
Why is coca-cola logo at the top? It makes it look like an attempt at a branded piece. Green and red do not work well together unless it’s Christmas. Why is Unilever pink? They have many secondary brand colours and that isn’t one.
Aezyre t1_ivxk6bk wrote
Classic r/dataisbeautiful: it just needs to be pretty and clickbaity it doesnt matter if it's bad
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