Coca-Cola Unveils New Prototype Bottle Made From 100% Plant-Based Sources

The Coca-Cola Company has revealed a next generation prototype bottle: its first made from 100% plant-based plastic (bPET), excluding cap and label, produced using technologies that are now ready to be commercially scaled across the industry (1).   This builds on a technological breakthrough announced last week 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. In 2009, Coca-Cola changed the sustainable packaging landscape with the launch of PlantBottleTM (2) , the world’s first recyclable PET…

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