No Plastic: Soft-Drink, Beer Companies To Use Cardboard Bottles That Recycle Quicker
The project has been backed by brands like Coca Cola, Danone, among others.
Our world has been fighting the overuse of plastic, as it starts to grapple with the ill effects of plastic pollution.
Researchers have been looking at innovative ways of substituting plastic for some other material, and even though some brands have taken it seriously, the adoption rate has been disappointing.
Avantium
However, (reported first by the Guardian) recently, Coca-Cola and Carlsberg announced that they¡¯ll be using plant-based bottles instead of glass or conventional plastic bottles for their drinks.
This plan is devised by renewable chemicals company Avantium that is making unique cardboard bottles with a plastic layering on the insides to store the beer well.
In case you were wondering about the inner plastic layering and how that would not be as renewable and eco-friendly as it¡¯s claiming to be, you¡¯d be happy to know that this isn¡¯t synthetic plastic.
The plastic is made from extracting sugars from corn, wheat and beets. These plant sugars are then broken down into chemical structures to create plant-based plastic. This plastic is resilient to store carbonated drinks and when the bottle is tossed in the bin, it will only take a year to recycle in a composter, a few years longer in normal conditions, but much much faster and safer than conventional plastic.
Tom Van Aken, CEO of Avantium says, ¡°This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels, and can be recycled ¨C but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do.¡±
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The project has been backed by brands like Coca Cola, Danone in order to limit the amount of damage their bottles do to the environment caused by plastic pollution as well as use of fossil fuels.
These bottles will help solve the plastic waste crisis where we see 300 million tonnes of plastic being made from fossil fuels which only gets added to the already full dumping grounds and contributing to the microplastic mayhem in the oceans, taking hundreds of years to decompose.
