Bottle of beverage from plants

Pepsi company recently revealed that they will use beverage bottles made entirely from plants. This is not simply a technology race with rival Coca-Cola, but it really helps to be more environmentally friendly than traditional bottles.

Raw materials for production of bottles are grass, pine bark, corn husk and some other materials. In addition, Pepsi plans to use orange peel, oat shell, potatoes and scraps. The company said that the new bottle has the effect of preserving drinks completely like the current bottle.

The bottle contains 100% plant-friendly, environmentally friendly Pepsi.

This may be a turning point in changing industry standards, new materials are replaced for traditional PET plastic used in beverage bottles, food bags, paints and many other products.

PET plastic has the advantage of being light, shatterproof, safe and does not affect food flavor. But the disadvantage is that it is very difficult to decompose, PET is produced from fossil fuels - resources are increasingly exhausted. By using plant materials will help minimize the adverse impact on the environment without increasing the price of finished products because the new material has the same cost as traditional plastic.

PepsiCo said it will begin testing new bottles in 2012 with several hundred thousand bottles. If successful, they continue to apply on a larger scale and gradually switch to using all bottles made entirely of plants.