Coca-Cola Unveils 100% Plant-Based Prototype Bottle The Coca-Cola Company has revealed its first proto- type bottle made from 100 percent plant-based plastic (bPET), produced using technologies that the com- pany said are now ready to be commercially scaled across the industry. This builds on Coca-Cola and UPM’s technological breakthrough for the first planned commercialization of technologies to convert second-generation biomass to plant-based monoethylene glycol (bMEG),one of two molecules necessary to create bPET.The other molecule used is PTA, comprised of bPTA andVirent’s bPX. Renewable Prototype The new prototype (barring its label and lid) ex- clusively uses materials from renewable, plant-based sources, removing all petroleum-based content from the bottle. According to the company, it represents a significant technological step forward in the reduction of virgin oil-based PET across commercially produced bottles. A limited run of approximately 900 of the prototype bottles has been produced. Coca-Cola said that the pack is recyclable and can be recycled bottle-to-bot- tle within existing recycling infrastructures, alongside PET from oil-based sources. In line with its ambition to become a net-zero car- bon business by 2050, Coca-Cola recently announced a goal to use three million tons less virgin plastic from oil-based sources by 2025. Depending on business growth, this would reportedly result in approximately 20 percent less virgin plastic derived from fossil fuels worldwide than today. Light-Weighting In order to achieve this goal, the company said it will invest in new recycling technologies, make packaging improvements such as light-weighting,explore different business models such as refillable, dispensed and foun- tain systems, and develop new, renewable materials. Coca-Cola has also set a goal to make 100 percent of its packaging recyclable and ensure that 50 percent of its packaging is made from recycled material. In Europe and Japan Coca-Cola,with its bottling part- ners, aims to eliminate the use of oil-based virgin PET from plastic bottles altogether by 2030, using only re- cycled or renewable materials. Renewable technologies are reportedly set to play a key role in supporting this goal.While the majority of the company’s plastic packaging material will come from recycled content, some “virgin” material will ap- parently still be needed to maintain packaging quality.
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