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    Default Pepsi make 100% plant based bottle

    Not sure if anyone has heard about this or not but Pepsi have developed a new plastic bottle made from 100% vegetable sources (switch grass, pine bark, corn husks, orange peels, oat husks and potato peels). It will also be 100% recyclable.

    http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/03/...tle-good-keep/

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    Default Re: Pepsi make 100% plant based bottle

    That's great news lol

    It's also good that they're able to use the food waste from their own plants to make the bottles. Hopefully they will share the technology with other companies as well.
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    Are they using GMO corn though?


    There was a documentary in the Netherlands on how biodegradable plastic made out of GMO corn is used to wrap organic fruits. Tbh I would prefer petroleum plastics above GMO crap.

    Another issue with biodegradable is that it takes too long to compost in commercial installations. The compost factory the documentary showed composts organic waste in two weeks. Those plastics takes more time and are just burned instead.

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    Default Re: Pepsi make 100% plant based bottle

    Good to hear that Pepsi made it 100% plant based bottle. I am not familiar with GMO corn but I am now curious about it. I have done a small research about the new Pepsi bottle and found an interesting article.

    "The bottle is made from bio-based raw materials, including switch grass, pine bark and corn husks. In the future, the company expects to broaden the renewable sources used to create the "green" bottle to include orange peels, potato peels, oat hulls and other agricultural byproducts from its foods business."

    Here's the link to the original posting.
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    Quote CoolCat View Post
    Tbh I would prefer petroleum plastics above GMO crap.
    Why?
    "I don't want to live on this planet any more" - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

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    Why?
    Because we shouldn't mess with our food like that... nobody knows the long term effects it will have. GMO genes already infected organic stuff in the USA.. once harmful side effects can be identified it will be too late to turn it back. It's uncertain, and unneeded. The only ones that want it are companies making money from it.

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    GMO's have already been so widely released, that I doubt there is any going back (in my uneducated opinion).

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    I agree. It has been widely released and we can't do anything about it. It's business!!! I have done a small research about GMO and found some interesting facts about it. Really scary harmful effects!

    Check out the link below.
    http://www.raw-wisdom.com/50harmful.


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    Pepsi is acidic. The company can go on with trying to be "moral" however their product is poison.

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    It's great that Pepsi have spent money developing an 100% recyclable bottle, but in the end they're just trying to make up for the worthlessness of their product by improving the packaging. Well if people didn't buy Pepsi in the first place, there wouldn't be any environmentally friendly or non-environmentally friendly bottles to worry about anyway!

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    That's brilliant! I really like it when big corporations make the first move on environmental things like this. It's a move forward that wasn't required by them really and it will raise awareness of the issue, as well as allowing the smaller companies to follow suit without the initial cost of developing the packaging themselves.

    I think it's important not to dwell on the negative side of things, it's a step forward in my opinion, we definitely need to be moving away from petroleum based plastics and the main thing is they have developed something vegetable based, the source of this vegetable can change.

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    That's great. I hate to be supportive of a company that makes billions from feeding people complete crap, but this is the first and last time I'll do it.

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    Quote LouiseAbel View Post
    That's great. I hate to be supportive of a company that makes billions from feeding people complete crap, but this is the first and last time I'll do it.
    Realism at its finest

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    Quote Consistency View Post
    Pepsi is acidic. The company can go on with trying to be "moral" however their product is poison.
    good point!

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    Quote Consistency View Post
    Realism at its finest
    Oh, I return the compliment! (Your earlier comment).

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