date:Oct 09, 2012
t is estimated the facility will produce 500,000 metric tons of material per year.
Vitters explains that the PlantBottle was a major breakthrough in that Coke invented plant-based pathways to replace the existing ingredients in PET. So we are producing chemically the exact same PET, but instead of coming from old carbon, derived from dinosaurs and plants from billions of years ago, its coming from new carbon sources.
By 2020, Coke hopes to convert all of its PET to PlantBottle technology.