Plant-Based bottles backed by Coca-Cola and Carlsberg will degrade in a year
Team Udayavani, May 18, 2020, 2:31 PM IST
Coca-Cola and Carlsberg are backing a new plant-based plastic being developed by Dutch biochemical company Avantium
The planet-friendly material uses plastics made from plant sugars intended to completely decompose within just one year to help in tackling both plastic pollution and the overuse of fossil fuels.
Avantium Managing Director Marcel Lubben said, “Participating in the Paper Bottle Project and collaborating with like-minded companies within the Paboco Pioneer Community, from bottle manufacturers to consumer brands, on developing new sustainable packaging material is a great opportunity for Avantium”
The company believes that their plant-based technology will be able to produce a new material for drinks containers that breaks down within a single year by 2023.
Avantium chief executive Tom van Aken said: “This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels and can be recycled, but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do.”
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