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In June, Coca-Cola Amatil announced it had developed a 100 per cent recycled plastic bottle that could be used with carbonated beverages. Kim Berry writes.
IT was in the 1990s that Coca-Cola Amatil started focussing on sustainability and recycling. The research effort over the decades has culminated in a 100 per cent recycled bottle for carbonated beverages It is also a world first.
Amatil Futureworks primary packaging manager, Craig Walker, told Food & Drink Beverage it had been a long process, with the main challenges being limited access to materials and supply. “PET is a high value plastic and availability of high-quality food-grade recycled PET can be challenging. We had to ensure all PET material purchased meets our quality and safety standards,” Walker says.
The Amatil technical team created smart preforms and bottle design to factor in the qualities of rPET. Pressure inside a soft drink bottle is up to 100 psi, or around three times the pressure in a car tyre. So the bottle for carbonated drinks needs to be much stronger than for still beverages.
For Walker, being a world first was “a greatfeeling”.“Our
technical team is fortunate enough that Coca-Cola Amatil has invested in the latest technology, which has accelerated our PET success story. It has been quite a journey with both community and commercial pressure driving a rapid take-up of recycled materials in bottling.
“We are always looking to address and reinvent our packaging to make it more sustainable, where plastics are renewed and reused.”
Impact on Amatil’s production line has been minimal. Walker says the only change has been the inclusion of a fast reheat addition, “which lowers the amount of energy used to heat up PET in the
production process.
“There has been no impact
on our production sites and PET does not require any
special treatment in terms of storage. The only difference in 100 per cent
rPET, is the minimal variability in colour from batch to batch, as the resin created has had a
previous life.”
The material can be
used on any bottle size, with Amatil working on
larger carbonated
beverage bottle preforms. ✷
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