IELTS Reading:
Coca-Cola and PlasticLevel 1 -
BeginnerCoca-Cola is an American company. It makes
soft drinks. It makes more than 500 different drinks. Most drinks come in plastic. Cans are from aluminum. People throw bottles and cans away. Many end up on streets, beaches, and in the ocean.
Coca-Cola hurts the natural world a lot. The company officially says that it is true. It is time to change it now. The company will
recycle all its plastic by 2030.
Many people and companies are happy. Some say that it is not enough. It is more important to reduce plastic and not
recycle it.
Difficult words:
soft drink (a non-alcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice),
recycle (to use materials and old things for making new things),
reduce (to make something smaller).
Level 2 - Intermediate Coca-Cola is a company that makes soft drinks, and it is also the world’s worst plastic
polluter.
Many people and companies criticized Coca-Cola that it did nothing to
limit its plastic. The company officially said that it knew about the problem with plastic on streets, beaches, and in the oceans.
It finally promised to do something with it. Coca-Cola said that it would be possible to
recycle all its packaging by 2030.
Also, 25% of the packaging will be reusable. It means that people will be able to use something more than once. Not everyone was happy about the news. Some people said that reducing trash was more important than recycling.
Difficult words:
polluter (a person or company which puts bad things in the water, air, and so on),
limit (to use less),
recycle (to use things and materials to make new things).
Level 3 - AdvancedCoca-Cola said that it’ll aim for 25% of its global packaging to be reusable and to recycle all packaging by 2030.
In the past, environmental groups criticized Coca-Cola for worldwide plastic pollution, and they
praised the company’s move. The company was the world’s worst plastic polluter for the fourth year in a row in 2021, and only 16% of its packaging was reusable in 2020. Coca-Cola
acknowledged that food and drink companies were responsible for much of the litter on streets, beaches, and in the oceans worldwide.
The company also said that it followed the idea of a
circular economy where resources such as aluminum, plastic, and glass are reused rather than thrown away. However, critics said that the company should focus on reducing instead of recycling waste.
Difficult words:
praise (to express respect or approval of what someone did),
acknowledge (to admit that something’s true),
circular economy (a system in which raw materials, components, and products lose little value).
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