Not to be outdone by Coca-Cola’s new plant-based bottle, Pepsi has decided to introduce one of its own.
The new bottle is 100 percent recyclable and, according to the company, virtually identical to the current petroleum-based bottles on store shelves. This in spite of the fact that it’s made from materials like switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks. And in the future Pepsi hopes to expand the material range to include both orange and potato peels.
“PepsiCo is in a unique position, as one of the world’s largest food and beverage businesses, to ultimately source agricultural byproducts from our foods business to manufacture a more environmentally-preferable bottle for our beverages business,” said chairman and CEO Indra Nooyi, “a sustainable business model that we believe brings to life the essence of performance with purpose.”
Of course this isn’t PepsiCo’s first foray into green package, as the company was also behind the notoriously noisy compostable SunChips bags.
The plant-based Pepsi bottles will go through a pilot production phase beginning next year, with full-scale production potentially soon to follow.
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