21 Oct 2021 --- Coca-Cola is unveiling a fully plant-based PET (bPET) bottle prototype, excluding the cap and label. The beverage giant has produced a limited run of 900 bottles, confirming the prototypes are recyclable within existing recycling infrastructures, alongside PET from oil-based sources. “The material processed well and did not demonstrate any unexpected shortcomings,” Dana Breed, global R&D director of packaging and sustainability at Coca-Cola, tells PackagingInsights. “The testing of the plant-based bottles follows the identical, comprehensive performance protocol that we use for any of our commercial packages and it continues to meet or surpass those performance criteria.”
