Coca-Cola, McDonald’s and Pepsico named UK’s biggest packaging polluters

Surfers Against Sewage's annual audit finds 12 companies responsible for 70% of branded pollution

Coca-Cola, McDonald's and PepsiCo have been named as the biggest packaging polluters in the UK, according to an annual audit.

The campaign group Surfers Against Sewage examined more than 30,700 individual polluting items collected by 4,000 citizen scientists alongside coastlines, canal paths, bridleways and city streets over a 12-month period up to 5 June 2023.