Pepsi Creates a Bottle Using 100% Plant Products
People who know me will have no doubt have noticed my preference of Pepsi over any other soft drink. I wouldn't say my love of Pepsi is an addiction but rather a principle I can stand behind and speak strongly against.
As a drinker of Pepsi for several years I have seen most of the bottling experiments Pepsi has tried from the traditional 12oz can to my favorite the 1 liter "Big Slam" (not the weak 1 liter we have now but the awesome one with the big top). One of the most unique containers I have seen is the glass bottle from the 90's. This was a 16oz clear glass container wrapped with a thin polyfoam insulator to keep your fingers from getting cold. These bottles were awesome but went away after a couple years in favor of the cheaper plastic bottles we see today.
A recent breakthrough in container design features a combination of plant materials with standard petroleum based plastics to create a sort of green plastic bottle. Well the Pepsi engineers have taken this one step further and created a plastic bottle that is made entirely from plant products and thus removed the dependency of oil from the material list.
They claim the new bottle is indistinguishable from the traditional plastic bottle but you know when they bring it to market the packaging will be covered in advertisements describing the new material.
The bottle is made from switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other materials. Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.
The new bottle looks, feels and protects the drink inside exactly the same as its current bottles, said Rocco Papalia, senior vice-president of advanced research at Pepsi.
I am of the opinion that bringing back the glass container would be a smart move for Pepsi but one of the reasons they went away was cost. Let's hope the plant bottle is a viable solution for Pepsi can fully replace petroleum based containers sooner rather than later.
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