subject: The Transition Of Plastic To Plant [print this page] Petroleum, as the raw material of many chemical industrial products, like solution, chemical fertilizer, plastic and insecticide and so on, the price is rise violently. Consequently, many chemical industries rely on petroleum not only confused by the rising price of raw material, but also confused by the problem of energy saving, environment protection, low carbon, emission reduction and so on. As the leader of drinking industries, Coca-Cola Company has realized this point that is the packaging of drinking bottle.
Coca-Cola Company is the biggest drinking company in global. It occupies 48% market occupancy. Every day, the products serve for 1.7 billion people. The kinds of beverage exceed about 160kinds, include soft drink, sports drink, juice, tea, coffee and so on. From the data, we can see that Coca-Cola has a big influence to the world.
Under the condition of enough supply, the packaging products become a big problem of Coca-Cola and other drink industries. In nowadays, the topic of environment protection is more and more hot, and consumers are more tend to use the packaging materials that are environment friendly. So, company who rely on plastic as the main packaging materials facing a very big problem.
Coca-Cola Company always devote oneself to develop the packaging of plant material, applies environment friendly products instead of plastic products. The plant bottle is a new project of Coca-Cola. The plant bottle looks the same as plastic bottle, while the manufacturing is very different. Plant bottle made by 22.5% PET plastic (the raw material is plastic plant), 25% rebirth PET and some other PET refined from petroleum. This kind of PET is a kind of recyclable material, and it has widely used in Coca-Cola bottles. Coca-Cola Company said that they have found an area with sustainable plant materials and will not destroy the ecology and production.
This kind of recyclable packaging is first appeared on the Copenhagen climate summit hold in Denmark in 2009. At present, the drinking with this kind of packaging material have bring out for 1 year. And company planned to bring out 5 billion drink of plant bottle in this year. Until 2020 year, Coca-Cola hopes to recycle all the plant bottles.
Though the appearance of plant plastic bottle brings dawn for drinking packaging market, it is not the total green ways. Compared with plastic which made by petroleum, the plant plastic has disadvantages like high made cost and easy to change higher than 60 degrees. Whats more, the great using of plant in the plastic bottle, the price of plant will rising by a wide margin, and this will further make the resource becoming tension.
Maybe the materials can not totally instead of the plastic, while Coca-Cola is advancing with specific goal. The birth of plant bottle has cut 8-10% of carbon emission load. Though, many problems exist during manufacturing procedure, Coca-Cola is still striving for finding new materials, according to the unscrambling of environment protection and industrial development. With this spirit, 100% green and environment friendly material will instead plastic at last.
