With the issues around climate change growing, both activists and scientists have been very vocal about ways in which we can reduce global warming. For example, reducing plastic waste. And it seems as though Coca Cola is backing this idea as talks of a new plant-based bottle go into effect.
Both Coca Cola and Carlsberg have given their support to an all-new biochemical company called Avantium.
Avantium has developed a climate-friendly beverage bottle made from plant sugars and it’s absolutely brilliant and awesome for the environment.
The project will manufacture 5,000 tons of plant-plastic annually, using sugar from corn, wheat, and beets. And probably the best feature of these newly designed bottles – they fully degrade in just one year, compared to the decades that it can take normal plastic to decompose.
This is how it will work:
This material would be used to create a protective layer within a cardboard bottle, replacing regular plastic containers, essentially reducing the carbon footprint inflicted by massive beverage manufacturers such as Coca Cola.
Imagine a world where materials are no longer made from #fossilresources. Well, at Avantium, this is our reality: https://t.co/nLIoARDBUs
— Avantium (@Avantium) May 12, 2020
Avantium hopes to bring this new technology to other manufactures that bottle drinks and make other plastic containers.