Tag: 100% recycled plastic

Ballygowan Mineral Water bottles move to 100% recycled plastic

Stuart Mitchell

Britvic-owned Irish water brand, Ballygowan Mineral Water, is moving to 100% recycled plastic bottles after the company invested €2m in operations at Ballygowan’s Newcastle West source in Limerick. The move is a significant part of Britvic’s Healthier People, Healthier Planet sustainability strategy, which will see all GB-made bottles including Robinsons, Fruit Shoot and Tango also switch to 100% rPET by the end of 2022. The change sets Ballygowan on its way to becoming Ireland’s most sustainable water brand and will see the removal of 51 million virgin PET bottles from…

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PepsiCo Commits to 100% Recycled Plastic Beverage Bottles for its Pepsi Brand in 9 EU Markets By 2022

Stuart Mitchell

PepsiCo is committing to eliminate all virgin plastic from its Pepsi brand beverage bottles sold in nine European Union markets by 2022. The company will package the entire range of beverages under that brand with plastics recycled from post- consumer packaging (recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or ‘rPET’). PepsiCo will also continue its progress towards growing reuse and refill systems such as SodaStream. The company estimates that the move to 100% rPET for these beverage bottles will eliminate over 70,000 tonnes of virgin, fossil-fuel based plastic per year, and will lower carbon…

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Coca-Cola in Western Europe transitions to 100% recycled plastic (rPET) bottles in two more markets

Stuart Mitchell

Coca-Cola in Western Europe have taken another important step on its journey to eliminating new virgin oil-based plastic as Coca-Cola in the Netherlands and Coca-Cola in Norway announce their transition to plastic bottles made from 100% recycled plastic (rPET). Following the announcement (December 2019) that Coca-Cola in Sweden would become the first market to switch to 100% rPET, Coca-Cola in the Netherlands has announced that from October 2020 it will transition all its locally produced small plastic bottles to 100% rPET, including iconic brands such as Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta.…

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