Recently, the Coca-Cola Company launched its first ever bottle made of 100% plant-based plastic。
It is said that Coca-Cola uses a technology developed by the plant-based plastic company Virent to develop the sugar in corn into a hydrocarbon called p-xylene (bPX), and bPX is converted into a plant-based terephthalic acid (bPTA).
The other 30% is made from sugars, which are directly converted into monoethylene glycol (MEG) through a breakthrough process, which the company says can be adjusted to use hardwood raw materials from sawmills or other wood industry waste .
Dana Breed, Global R&D Director of Coca-Cola Packaging and Sustainability Department, said: "The inherent challenge of using bioethanol is that you are competing with fuel. We need a next-generation MEG solution to solve this challenge, and we also need a Solutions that can use second-generation raw materials, such as forestry waste or agricultural by-products. Our goal for plant-based PET is to use surplus agricultural products to minimize the carbon footprint, so the commercial technology combination brought by our partners is in line with The ideal combination of this strategy."
Nancy Quan, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Coca-Cola, said: "We are taking significant steps to reduce the use of'virgin' oil-based plastics because we are working hard to achieve a circular economy and support the common goal of achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We believe that Plant-based plastics will play a key role in our entire PET portfolio in the future, supporting our goal of reducing our carbon footprint to reduce dependence on'native' fossil fuels, and promoting PET collection to support the circular economy."
