Coca-Cola & Carlsberg Introduce Plant-Based Bottles Made From Plant Sugar That Degrade In A Year!
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We are producing over 300 million tons of plastic every year globally, 50% of which is for single-use purposes, and more than 8 million tons of plastic is dumped into our oceans every year. Disposal of plastic bottles is a huge contributor to the global climate crisis.
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A Dutch company, Avantium, is in an advanced stage to offer a solution for replacing the plastic used in the food supply chain. With the backing of major companies such as Coca-Cola, Carlsberg, and Danone, it is developing a plant-based plastic that could replace plastic and degrade in a year!
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Trials have shown that Avantium’s design is durable enough to contain carbonated drinks. The plastic-like material developed at Avantium is made from corn, beet sugar, and wheat, and other ingredients that would completely disintegrate in a composter within a year, and over three when left in the natural environment.
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“This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels and can be recycled—but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do,” Avantium’s chief executive, Tom Van Aken, said to The Guardian.
Avantium, Coca-Cola, and Carlsberg are all partners with the the Paper Bottle Company, which is focused on developing sustainable bottle packaging. Some prototype bottles, such as one from Carlsberg, still use a recycled plastic film interior to act as a barrier that will allow the paper to contain the liquid, before the company can "work toward a solution without plastic."
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The Carlsberg Group Green Fibre Bottle, the world’s first “paper bottle” for beer.
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The video below shows how plant-based plastic are produced.
This new plant-based plastic will not just change the packaging industry forever with its biodegradable bottles but making it more sustainable for companies too. Products packaged in Avantium’s plant-based plastic could be on the shelves in 2023, with high expectations of increased market demand to come quite soon after.
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