{"id":532600,"date":"2021-10-27T11:23:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=532600"},"modified":"2021-10-27T11:23:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T09:23:35","slug":"business-talk-david-drew-on-coca-colas-drive-towards-sustainable-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/532600\/business-talk-david-drew-on-coca-colas-drive-towards-sustainable-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Business Talk \u2013 David Drew on Coca-Cola\u2019s drive towards sustainable packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Drew is the sustainability director for Africa at Coca-Cola, where he is focused on reducing the company\u2019s environmental footprint.<\/p>\n<p>Drew is an experienced commercial executive with a demonstrated history of working in senior roles in the packaging and FMCG industries.<\/p>\n<p>He boasts a BSc (hons) in Chemical Engineering from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, and has worked at companies including packaging manufacturer and producer, ALPLA and Unilever.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Drew says that South Africa needs a cohesive treaty on plastic pollution and details what this treaty would entail.<\/p>\n<p>Drew also speaks about the World Without Waste initiative, and explains what Coca-Cola is doing to drive this initiative locally.<\/p>\n<p>He also details Coca-Cola\u2019s innovations in the packaging and bottling space, and discusses the Voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility (VEPR) model.<\/p>\n<p>Drew closes by providing advice to corporations that want to educate consumers about recycling culture.<\/p>\n<p>The full interview is embedded below. You can find all Business Talk with Michael Avery interviews<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/talk.businesstech.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDIDfHx01cw\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of Business Talk, Drew says that South Africa needs a cohesive treaty on plastic pollution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":532630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15578,1814,16362],"class_list":["post-532600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-business-talk","tag-coca-cola","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532600"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532650,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532600\/revisions\/532650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}