Personelly i prefer Coke but i gave that up a few years ago because it is not really good for you although it tastes good. Pepsi new bottles i like but not the drink. Other companies are likely to follow and start making plant based bottles...good for the enviroment.
PepsiCo Develops World's First 100 Percent Plant-Based, Renewably Sourced PET Bottle
PURCHASE, N.Y., March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Building upon its heritage as an innovator and leader in environmental sustainability, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) today announced it has developed the world's first PET plastic bottle made entirely from plant-based, fully renewable resources, enabling the company to manufacture a beverage container with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.
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PepsiCo's "green" bottle is 100 percent recyclable and far surpasses existing industry technologies. The bottle is made from bio-based raw materials, including switch grass, pine bark and corn husks. In the future, the company expects to broaden the renewable sources used to create the "green" bottle to include orange peels, potato peels, oat hulls and other agricultural byproducts from its foods business. This process further reinforces PepsiCo's "Power of One" advantage by driving a strategic beverage innovation via a food-based solution.
"This breakthrough innovation is a transformational development for PepsiCo and the beverage industry, and a direct result of our commitment to research and development," said PepsiCo Chairman and CEO, Indra Nooyi. "PepsiCo is in a unique position, as one of the world's largest food and beverage businesses, to ultimately source agricultural byproducts from our foods business to manufacture a more environmentally-preferable bottle for our beverages business – a sustainable business model that we believe brings to life the essence of Performance with Purpose."
Combining biological and chemical processes, PepsiCo has identified methods to create a molecular structure that is identical to petroleum-based PET (polyethylene terephthalate), which results in a bottle that looks, feels and protects its product identically to existing PET beverage containers.
PepsiCo will pilot production of the new bottle in 2012. Upon successful completion of the pilot, the company intends to move directly to full-scale commercialization.
"As You Sow applauds PepsiCo's innovative packaging design," said Conrad Mackerron, Senior Program Director of As You Sow, a San Francisco-based foundation, which promotes corporate social responsibility through shareholder engagement. "By reducing reliance on petroleum-based materials and using its own agricultural scraps as feedstock for new bottles, this advancement should deliver a double win for the environment and PepsiCo."
With this development, PepsiCo continues its leadership position in environmental sustainability and driving progress against the global goals and commitments it announced in 2010 to protect the Earth's natural resources through innovation and more efficient use of land, energy, water and packaging. Specific examples of PepsiCo's recent environmental innovations and progress include:
- SunChips developing the world’s first fully compostable bag and using solar power at the Modesto manufacturing facility to take some of the plant off the electrical grid;
- light-weighting Aquafina’s bottles with the introduction of the Eco-Fina bottle in 2009, the lightest bottle of its size among U.S. bottled water brands;
- Naked Juice transitioning to a 100 percent post-consumer recycled plastic bottle with the introduction of its reNEWabottle™ - the first beverage, distributed nationally in the U.S., to do so;
- achieving "positive water balance" in India in 2009 – through direct seeding initiatives, the company replenished nearly six billion liters of water across India, exceeding the total intake of approximately five billion liters of water by its manufacturing facilities;
- introducing the Dream Machine recycling initiative, to provide greater access to on-the-go recycling receptacles and help increase the U.S. beverage container recycling rate from 34 percent to 50 percent, by 2018;
- launching a groundbreaking pilot program, using low-carbon fertilizers that drastically reduce Tropicana’s lifecycle carbon footprint; and
- Walkers becoming the first company in the world to display a carbon reduction logo on a consumer product, representing a commitment to become more sustainable and transparent.
- NAMASTE
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yes GO PEPSI ....just for the bottle as the drink is not that tasty...but the bottle can be used to fill up mineral water at refill points in Supermarkets
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I can use this fresh produce for better alternatives than packaging some poison.
I,ve made up my mind ; no support from me for this product.
Behave yourself Cmdr Aeon Nova as you are a Cmdr so you should keep away from drugs like caffeine..not good for you
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esseya the reason i posted this is because of using a PLANT BASED BOTTLE and other companies with their types of drinks and juices will in the near future use PLANT BASED BOTTLES without the contimanation Plastic Bottles have. AS FAR AS THE DRINK PEPSI IS CONCERNED THANK YOU VERY MUCH I DO NOT LIKE THE TASTE NOR THE INGREDIENTS...but i will wait when other companies start using Plant Based Bottles with healthier types of drink in them.
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At the moment i use HIGHLAND SPRING still Mineral Water bottle as the water and bottles are good
Highland Spring ranked most ethical bottled water
The 10th edition of the Good Shopping Guide has just been published and has ranked Highland Spring the UK's most ethical bottled water brand, scoring 100% in its latest Ethical Company Index.
Highland Spring has been ranked highest in the guide for the past six years and is celebrating after achieving the highest possible rating in both 2010 and forthcoming 2011 editions.
The only bottled waters the guide recommends are Highland Spring and Campsie Spring as they have a very clean ethical record, are local to the UK and score highly on the Ethical Company Index. Both brands are owned by the Highland Spring Group.
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Hemp Plastic is an affordable bio based natural fibre composite to replace oil based raw material
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I used to get Mineral Water in Plastic Bottles and then i stopped when i found out the Plastic used to make the Bottles contaminated the Water so i started getting Mineral Water in Glass Bottles...NOW IF HEMP PLASTIC WAS USED TO MAKE THE MINERAL WATER BOTTLES WOULD THIS SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF CONTAMINATION ???
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Yes, plastic bottles would be great to be made from hemp. For now, hemp plastic is ideal for injection moulding purposes only.
So i hope in the near future we will get plastic bottles made from HEMP
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Coke's secret ingredient is cocaine that is why people get hooked on it
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