Pepsi Introduces Bottle Developed from 100% Plant Material

Creating “green” products and materials that aren’t harmful to our environment is a great thing, and most often, when big companies jump on board, the reduced effects on the environment can be huge. Pepsi, with its introduction of a 100% plant bottle, though, might bring things to a new level. Just imagine… billions of bottles each year, “green”.

With an ingredient list of 100% plant materials, it makes Coca-Cola’s 30% seem rather paltry. To accomplish this feat, Pepsi used switch grass, pine bark, corn husks and other unmentioned materials. In the future, it plans to integrate even more ingredients, such as orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.

According to Pepsi, this plant bottle looks the same as the original (though it does look somewhat colored from the press shot), protects the soda like the original, and feels like the original. We could also expect that it wouldn’t add any bizarre flavor, being that its made with food scraps and not typical PET plastic materials.

Pepsi plans to roll out a test of these bottles in the hundreds of thousands next year with a test run, and after figuring out whether or not porting its entire output over to the plant bottles is viable, we might well see 100% plant bottles from the company in just the next couple of years. Given Pepsi’s output, this is surely a good thing.

Pepsi says it is the world’s first bottle of a common type of plastic called PET made entirely of plant materials. Coca-Cola currently produces a bottle using 30 per cent plant-based materials and recently estimated it would be several years before it has a 100 per cent plant bottle that’s commercially viable.