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Coca-Cola Sweden becomes 1st market to adopt fully recycled plastic

Coca-Cola Sweden becomes 1st market to adopt fully recycled plastic

Mubasher: Coca-Cola Sweden announced that starting next year, plastic bottles will be made from recycled material; hence, becoming the world’s first market that makes bottles from 100% recycled plastic, Forbes reported.  

Through this switch, 3,500 tonnes of virgin plastic will be eliminated each year, contributing to 25% fewer CO2 emissions.

The move will commence over the first quarter of 2020 at the company’s bottling factory in Jordbro, which produces 90% of the drinks sold by Coca-Cola in Sweden. 

“Around 40 different variants of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, including Coca-Cola, Fanta, Sprite, and Bonaqua will [transform] to recycled plastic (rPET). Bottle closures and labels, however, will continue to be made from polythene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) respectively, to be removed in the recycling process,” according to Forbes.  

Commenting on this, the general manager for Coca-Cola AB in Sweden, Barbara Tönz, said, “Our ambition is to see the words ‘single-use plastic’ and indeed ‘single-use packaging’ become obsolete, with all packaging collected and reused.”

“We are committed to advancing the development of a circular economy, with 100% of our packaging collected, recycled or reused so that it does not end up as rubbish or end up in the environment,” he added.