Coca-Cola has announced plans to build a new plastic bottle recycling plant in England. The investment was made in collaboration with Eco Plastics Ltd from the UK, which operates Europe’s largest and most technically advanced mixed plastic bottle facility. Eco Plastics has invested £10 million in the project while Coca-Cola has invested £5 million. The facility will be able to process 75,000 tonnes of polyethylene terepthalate, more than double what the UK was able to process last year.
The facility is part of a 10-year joint venture between the two companies. Eco Plastics will provide Coca-Cola with a guaranteed supply of recycled plastic and Coca-Cola will use this plastic to meet its target of having 25 percent polyethylene terephthalate (PET) in all plastic packaging by 2012. While this partnership is solely for Coca-Cola operations in the UK, I am hopeful that it will inspire other Coca-Cola subsidiaries to use decomposable plastic as well.
Coca-Cola is not the only beverage manufacturer looking to incorporate biodegradable bottles. SodaStream, another major beverage player, will be using decomposable packaging for its flavoured syrups. These syrups will come in plastic bottles that decompose in five short years. This is an impressive accomplishment given it takes about 450 years for regular plastic bottles to decompose.
Check out this video which shows how the Eco Plastics bottle sorting plant works.
What do you think of this proposed solution?
From Trevor S.
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