Fact checker: In the war on plastic is Coca-Cola friend or foe?

Coca-Cola produces over 100 billion plastic bottles a year.

There was a time for people of certain generations when Coca-Cola was associated with teaching the world to sing.

The famous 1970s song by the New Seekers was reprised in the hit show Mad Men, when advertising guru Don Draper had an epiphany on a hippie retreat about how to sell the fizzy drink as a symbol for global harmony.