This morning, the Coca-Cola Company announced that beverages in its new PlantBottle™ packaging are beginning to arrive on store shelves in select markets throughout the world.
The PlantBottle is an innovative plastic bottle made with up to 30% plant-based material.
The plant-based material is from sugar cane and molasses, a by-product of sugar cane processing.
This new bottle will help reduce the company’s dependence on petroleum, which is a fundamental component in traditional plastic bottle manufacturing.
According to Coca-Cola, a PlantBottle PET bottle feels like traditional PET plastic, it's the same weight as traditional PET plastic, it works just like traditional PET plastic, and it's recyclable just like traditional PET plastic — because it is PET plastic. The difference is that in the manufacture of the PlantBottle, a non-renewable resource (petroleum) is partially replaced with a renewable, plant-based resource (sugar cane).
How will you know if the bottle you have is a PlantBottle?
Coca-Cola says to look for the PlantBottle logo or messages on the package, and look for sales displays in the store where you shop.
The PlantBottle packaging is being launched initially in Denmark and in the western regions of Canada and the United States. Coca-Cola plans to produce 2 billion of the special PET plastic bottles by the end of 2010.
Source: The Coca-Cola Company
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