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There’s a lot of green activity happening in this Coca-Cola billboard in the Philippines. The cola giant partnered with the World Wide Fund for Nature to create a 60×60 ft. billboard made of 3,600 Fukien tea plants, a breed excellent at absorbing air pollutants. The pots the tea plants sit in are made of recycled Coca-Cola bottles, the potting mix within is made of industrial by-products and organic fertilizers, and a drip irrigation system was installed to properly hydrate the plants.
I guess I can feel a little bit better about my caffeine habit now.
The ad agency Definition 6 developed a clever campaign for Coca-Cola. It created a truck designed to resemble a vending machine. There’s a giant button on the back marked “Push”. They drove it around Rio de Janeiro. When people pushed the button, all sorts of prizes popped out — bottles of Coke, soccer balls, beach toys, and even a surfboard.
via Super Punch | Agency Website
Coca-Cola used to contain coca, a plant that can be refined into cocaine. Bolivians are now putting it back into cola and calling it “Coca-Colla”:
The drink, made from the coca leaf and named after the indigenous Colla people from Bolivia’s highlands, went on sale this week across the South American country.
It is black, sweet and comes in a bottle with a red label – but similarities to Coca-Cola end there. One is a symbol of US-led globalisation and corporate might; the other could be considered a socialist-tinged affront to western imperialism. [...]
It is made from the coca leaf, a mild stimulant that wards off fatigue and hunger, and has been used in the Andes for thousands of years in cooking, medicine and religious rites. [...]
Bolivia tried to wipe out the leaf at Washington’s behest. But that was before Evo Morales, an Aymara Indian and coca grower, was elected president, championing coca as a crop with legitimate uses.
Link via Fast Company | Photo: Dado Galdieri/AP
Nicholas Nunley needed a little cash, so he did what anyone would do -he hooked a Coke machine to his car and drove off! Deputies from the McMinn County Sheriff’s department in Riceville, Tennessee chased Nunley as sparks flew from the dragging machine Wednesday morning. The Coke machine eventually disconnected from the car, but Nunley drove on. He pulled over after a nearly five mile chase. Nunley was charged with theft and resisting arrest. Link -via Arbroath
Drank Drunk by practically everyone on the planet, Coca-Cola is arguably the most recognizable brand in the world. The company sells 1.5 billion units a day, and that’s not the most fascinating fact about it. The rest of this infographic has more mind-boggling statistics about the Coca-Cola Company.
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Xander of Colaplaza is an avid collector of Coca-Cola cans. He now has over 8,000 different Coke cans. Check out his Wall of Coke Cans here: Link
Previously on Neatorama: 25 Strangest Collection on the Web
