Eliminate single-use plastic, commit now to reuse — done right — at all future Olympic Games!

To save our oceans and to dramatically reduce single-use plastic pollution, we need more reusable packaging now.

The Paris Olympics committed to reuse — why hasn’t Milano Cortina 2026 and LA 2028 followed suit?

Tell Coca-Cola and Olympic Organizing Committees — it’s time to commit now.

Oceana found that over 1 trillion single-use plastic bottles and cups can be eliminated and up to 153 billion of these containers prevented from polluting our world’s waterways and seas through increasing reusable beverage packaging — in place of single-use plastic — by just 10-percentage points globally by 2030.

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games was the largest sporting event ever to serve beverages in reusable packaging. This is an important milestone, and we need to build on this success now by getting future Olympic Games to do the same.

We also need the organizers to commit to “real” reuse at the future games. At the 2024 Olympics, some beverages were poured into reusable cups from single-use plastic bottles, and reusable cups were branded with the Olympic logo making them attractive to fans to take home as souvenirs. We need more reusable packaging, and we need reuse done right.

Help us keep the torch lit for reuse by joining Oceana in calling on Coca-Cola and the Olympic organizing committees to replace single-use plastic with reusable packaging systems designed to minimize waste at all future Olympic and Paralympic Games.

petition letter

Dear Coca-Cola and Olympic Organizing Committees,

My name is {user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}, and I am an Olympic sports fan.
 
I am emailing today with Oceana to ask that you replace single-use plastic with reusable packaging at all future Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games was the largest sporting event ever to serve beverages in reusable packaging. This is an important milestone marking a shift in the right direction, but future Olympic games have not yet followed suit. We ask that Milano Cortina 2026 and LA 2028 commit now to reuse — and doing reuse right. At the 2024 Olympics, some beverages were poured into reusable cups from single-use plastic bottles.

Our oceans and planet need more reusable packaging, and we need reuse done right. Oceana estimated that up to 153 billion single-use plastic bottles and cups can be prevented from polluting our world’s waterways and seas through increasing reusable beverage packaging — in place of single-use plastic — by just 10-percentage points globally by 2030.

Demand is growing for reuse. Spectators like me want it and athletes want it — in July 2024, over 100 sports organizations and elite athletes sent a letter to leading event sponsors Coca-Cola and Pepsi, calling on them to make future Olympics and other sporting events run on reuse rather than single-use.  
 
Please answer this call. Replace single-use plastic with well-designed reusable packaging systems at Milano Cortina 2026 and LA 2028. Please also take advantage of the marketing opportunities the Olympics provides to raise awareness about the environmental benefits of reusable packaging and increase consumer demand for more of it.

In the spirit of the Olympics, it’s time for all of us to come together and ditch single-use plastic in favor of reuse. The future of our environment, our climate, and our health depends on it. 
 
Sincerely,

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}

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