Our plastic bottles are made to be remade. They are carefully designed to be 100% recyclable and when collected can be turned into new bottles again and again, as intended. Our priority is to use more recycled plastic in our bottles to reduce our plastic footprint, decrease our industry's CO2 emissions and keep plastic out of nature.
It starts with the well-designed plastic we use for bottles. PET plastic is a valuable, durable and versatile plastic. As such, our plastic bottles are accepted in recycling programs in all 50 states, and PET is the most recyclable and recycled plastic in the
When recycled, our bottles can be remade into new bottles. Using recycled PET (rPET) instead of new plastic for bottles reduces total energy consumption by 79% and limits greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 67%.
This is what makes rPET so valuable. We are investing in ways to create more of it to decrease the amount of new plastic used to make bottles, and other producers want rPET for their products as well.
Among the comprehensive set of actions the beverage industry is taking to create a circular economy for plastic bottles:
We are investing
We've provided more than 1 million large capacity recycling carts for free to cities and towns and have funded state-of-the-art equipment at collection facilities that will improve the quality and amount of recycled materials.
Projects committed to thus far in conjunction with sustainability leaders
The beverage industry has added uniform recycling reminders on all its bottles that urge consumers to recycle their bottles with the cap on.
We are running nationwide multimedia communications and advertising to inspire confidence among consumers that a bottle recycled is a bottle that can be remade.
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These actions are showing results. The amount of rPET in our bottles is growing, as is the number of bottles made from 100% recycled plastic (excluding caps and labels). We are using less new plastic in our bottles - reducing our plastic footprint.
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