Coca-Cola creates first Bottle made from Ocean Plastic Waste

The Coca-Cola Company, which makes the world’s most popular soft drink Coca-Cola, has released its limited edition release of 300 bottles made partly from recycled ocean plastic waste collected during a cleanup of 84 beaches in Portugal and Spain and along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

The bottle stands out for its green strip instead of the customary red strip. Coca-Cola in association with the Dutch startup business Ioniqa Technologies and its PET plastic supplier Indorama Ventures Coca-Cola created this sustainable bottle. This technology has made it possible to break down the components of lower grade plastic, remove impurities and create new plastic. This technology will help to put to use lower grade plastics that are destined  to end up in incinerators or landfills.

The Coca-Cola Company’s World without Waste policy includes collecting a bottle/ can for every piece it sells by 2030; and to have all of its bottles made with at least 50% sustainable plastic.

The development of the marine plastic bottle is a proof of what technology has in store for us in future.  Recycling gets a new direction and meaning with this invention that makes it possible to convert damaged marine plastic back to food-grade material and ecofriendly products.