First pure plant plastic bottle
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Last Update: 2011-03-21
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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PepsiCo launched a pure plant plastic bottle Friday, calling it the world's first polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic bottle made entirely of plant materials The new plastic bottle is made of switchgrass, pine bark and corn bran PepsiCo also plans to add orange peel, oatmeal shell, potato peel and other leftovers from the production process to its raw materials Rocco paparia, deputy head of PepsiCo's R & D department, said the appearance, handle and performance of the new plastic bottle were no different from those of PepsiCo's current plastic bottles "It looks great," he said, "it's impossible to tell We cracked the code PepsiCo plans to produce hundreds of thousands of pure plant plastic bottles in 2012 According to PepsiCo, if there is no problem with this scale of mass production, the new plastic bottles will gradually be fully used in its products The associated press said Pepsi competitor Coca Cola is now making plastic bottles that contain 30 percent of plant materials Coca Cola expects that it will take several years to produce 100% pure plant plastic bottles and put them into commercial operation.
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