Comments on: Coca-Cola Rolls Out Plant-Based Recyclable Bottles

By: How Consumers Can Share Responsibility for Greening

How Consumers Can Share Responsibility for Greening — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 09:05:31 +0000

[...] but they can’t force consumers to turn the water off when they brush. Coke can make the bottles recyclable, but only consumers can drop them in the blue bin. Sun Chips can make the bags compostable, but [...]

By: DrRossH

DrRossH — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:57:47 +0000

I ask Why is this a good thing? Good for who? Depending on how you look at it, this may be a good feature to get away from oil based products (yes that is good for us), or it may be the company realizes that oil prices are going up and it needs an alternative material source (good for coke). Or the concept of using arable land space that grows food and using it to make plastic bottles that a consumer uses for perhaps 60 mins then discards to go to a landfill, may not the best use of the environment (bad for us). But these are not addressing the disposal side of the bottle. This is still a PET bottle. It has the same disposal issues as any other PET bottle. They will last for 100s or 1000′s of years in landfills which is where 77% of them will end up. So again why is this bottle good for us?
Coke (and all the others) could use one of the new biodegradable additives like Ecopure of EcoOne to make thir bottles biodegradable in a landfill, without compromising the strength of the bottle to contain cabonated pressure. Now that would be good for the environment.

By: Heinz Ketchup is Going Green with Coca-Cola

Heinz Ketchup is Going Green with Coca-Cola — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:45:08 +0000

[...] you may recall, Coca-Cola first launched the PlantBottle in 2009. The technology has been described as “breakthrough” and “revolutionary” because [...]

By: Odwalla Squeezes Out the Oil—Much More Oil Than Coke Squeezed | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:24:52 +0000

[...] I mean by that: the Coke and Dasani PlantBottle packaging, which came out last year is polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and 30 percent of that material comes from plant sources, [...]

By: Coca-Cola Pushes Sustainability in China | Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:15 +0000

[...] in almost every country with a million employees. Its plastic bottles now often contain up to 30% plant-based materials; its European executives realize it must do more to encourage consumers to recycle at home; and in [...]

By: 2nd chance checking

2nd chance checking — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:05:49 +0000

That is seriously awesome. That is good news that they are doing this. People might wish the percentage was higher than 30%, but when you span that number over billions of bottles that coca cola produces…that is a huge feat.

By: 2nd chance checking

2nd chance checking — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:05:49 +0000

By: 2010: year of corporate social opportunity..? « Antidote

2010: year of corporate social opportunity..? « Antidote — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 12:44:18 +0000

[...] he adds, is “like a turning around a very big ship”. It’s turning: in 2009 Coke launched plant-based recyclable bottles, and also committed to cut carbon emissions by 15% by [...]

By: PeterRijs

PeterRijs — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:19:24 +0000

With introductions like these, I always wonder whether the initiative is environmental, marketing or economically driven. Probably a mix, and like may green initiatives, the big question is if this results in a better eco-balance for the product or just gives Coca Cola a better eco friendly image.

By: change now

change now — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:10:40 +0000

if you lay off the coke/pepsi for a while and then try to drink the stuff, it tastes like drinking mud….why do you think coke is called coke??? they purposely make it addictive…they really care about your health??? people shouldn’t drink bottled water, people shouldn’t do a lot of things….we shouldn’t be fighting wars in every continent while fifty million americans don’t know where their next meal is coming from…while bailing out bankers with record breaking end of year bonuses using our tax dollars….Merry *(& XMAS

change your whole paradigm if we are going to have ANY chance at saving our planet…

By: EcoChampion

EcoChampion — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:48:13 +0000

This is a great step forward by coke. If just a pity that the people at Ribena beat them first!

By: Chris Arnold

Chris Arnold — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:37:49 +0000

For all the criticism, when Coke makes even a small change it results in a big change across the globe. At least they are going in the green direction. It’s no bad thing that many companies are greening up for marketing reasons, either way it makes a difference. Chris Arnold, author Ethical Marketing & The New Consumer

By: commenter

commenter — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:32:15 +0000

you wish that companies would become green because it helps the planet, not just because it might help them sell more bottles of soda

By: BC Upham

BC Upham — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:10:41 +0000

I think Coke is doing what it believes it can. They’re sort of stuck however: the more biodegradable their bottles, the less recyclable they are. But the recyclable plastic of course lasts forever, and ends up in the Pacific Garbage Patch, for example. What they really need to do, and they are making an effort, is increase the percentage of bottles that are recycled and not thrown away. Of course, this is not only their problem.
To be honest, I don’t know if I entirely believe that biodegradable bottles cannot hold carbonated beverages. I feel likeif the beverage industry really tried, they could come up with a bottle that biodegraded and could hold soda or whatever.