With beverage companies becoming much more aware of their
‘carbon’ footprint, and in a race to be the ‘most green’ many
companies are in a hurry to green up their bottles. While
Arrowhead Spring water has had the claim that they have the
‘greenest’ water bottle among bottled water companies with their
Ecoshape bottles, the soda companies are now getting in on the
action. Coca-Cola recently introduced their new PlantBottle and
detail their steps toward a more sustainable bottle. This new
PlantBottle is produced using a blend of petroleum-based
materials and up to 30 percent plant-based materials. Coca-Cola
is using sugar cane and molasses, a by-product of sugar
production, to turn into a key component for PET plastic in the
PlantBottle. This allows the bottles to be fully recycled
without contaminating the traditional PET plastic recycling
process, and reduces carbon emissions by up to 25 percent,
compared with petroleum-based PET. Arrowhead Ecoshapes bottles
are noticeably much thinner than most and claim tha