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Olympic sponsor Coca-Cola under scrutiny for widespread plastic use

Coca-Cola has exclusive rights to sell drinks at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. [Getty Images]

The Paris Olympics organising committee said Tuesday it would meet its target to reduce single-use plastics by half compared to the 2012 London Games despite bottles by major sponsor Coca-Cola being widely used on its sites.

Fanta, Sprite and Coke are flowing unabated at Olympic venues, where staff have been seen emptying plastic bottles into reusable cups -- a practice some say runs counter to the Games' pledge to be the greenest in history.

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