I blame coke for not making more environmentally conscious decisions and instead following the bottom line.

They could just make less off each container if they switched their plastics to an aluminum container.

Or they could make the same amount by charging slightly more.

Or they could lobby the government to pass legislation to get incentives to use aluminum over plastic (they would probably come out ahead on this one honestly).

Your initial statement was that people could just not litter.

I'm showing that the issue with plastic is harder than just not littering and you're moving goalposts now.

What's your actual point?

Seagulls, raccoons, bears, and other animals feast on garbage and carry it back into the environment (both literally and in their gut).

Is it your position that greenhouse gasses are not bad for the environment?

Where it's broken down into microplastics and released into the environment.

You do know that landfills aren't static environments where anything you put in just stays there forever, right?

Okay, let's say you recycle your plastic instead. Most municipal recycling programs don't do anything with their plastic except bundle it up and sent it offshore for someone else to deal with.

https://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/blog/2022/5/16/what-really-happens-to-your-plastic-recycling

So even if you do everything right, the bottles still end up polluting the environment.