The foster care system offers little support when youth age out of care at 18 or 21, depending on the state. Currently finishing his masters in social work, Mark struggled to finish his associates degree while homeless for a couple of years after he aged out of a housing program in California for former foster youth. Lanitta’s daughter, Violet, is now four, and they will live together in their foster home until Lanitta graduates from high school. This fall, Lanitta will attend the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and with the help of a scholarship for former foster youth, will have to provide for both herself and Violet while studying full-time. the company is “committed to achieving 100% recyclable, compostable, or biodegradable packaging by 2025” and strives to “use 25% recycled plastic content in [their] plastic packaging by that same year.” Coca-Cola toldTeen Vogue For more information on the global plastics crisis, read the rest of thePlastic Planetseries. it has placed “ambitious goals” for the company’s World Without Waste vision: It aims to “collect and recycle a bottle or can for every one [they] sell — regardless of where it comes from — by 2030” and “use an average of 50% recycled content in our bottles and cans by 2030.”Teen Vogue