Pepsi bottles have gone green by using 100% non-plastic, plant-based material that they say reduces their carbon footprint. The new bottle is made of switch grass, pine bark, corn husks, and other materials.
The company says they will also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps, and other by-products from their food business.
They add that their new bottle bests the efforts of Coca-Cola, which only uses 30 percent plant-based material in their bottles.
"This is the beginning of the end of petroleum-based plastics," said Allen Hershkowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and director of its waste management project. "When you have a company of this size making a commitment to a plant-based plastic, the market is going to respond."
Rocco Papalia, senior vice president of advanced research at Pepsi, adds that the bottle is indistinguishable from traditionally-made plastic bottles.
