Beloved drinks together with Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta in 500mL bottles can be made with 100% recycled plastic bottles*, saving 7.6 million kilos of latest plastic in 2024 alone
TORONTO, Oct. 26, 2023 /CNW/ – Today, The Coca-Cola Company is asserting that all its 500mL glowing beverage bottles in Canada can be made with 100% recycled plastic* (*excluding caps and labels) by early 2024. This marks the primary time 500mL glowing drinks can be offered in bottles created from 100% recycled plastic* in Canada.
“With this transition, no virgin PET plastic can be used for our glowing 500mL bottles beneath regular circumstances going ahead in Canada,” stated Kurt Ritter, Vice President & General Manager, Sustainability, Coca-Cola North America. “We hope that transitioning our 500mL glowing portfolio to 100% recycled plastic will improve the quantity of high-quality, food-grade, recycled plastic available in Canada and, in the end, allow us to supply extra of our manufacturers on this sustainable format.”
The shift helps The Coca-Cola Company’s World Without Waste goals to make use of at the very least 50% recycled content material in its packaging by 2030, and to scale back using virgin plastic. It’s projected to save lots of 7.6 million kilos of latest plastic in 2024 alone, in addition to scale back almost 7,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions yearly which is the equal of taking almost 1,500 vehicles off the street for one yr.
Bottles made with 100% recycled plastic* create and maintain a round financial system for plastic packaging. Once the fabric (PET) is recycled, it’s cleaned, sorted and floor into small flakes that grow to be uncooked materials for extra new bottles. To build consciousness and encourage customers to proceed recycling bottles, all 100% recycled plastic bottles* will characteristic “Recycle Me Again” messaging.
“We’re proud to companion with The Coca-Cola Company on our transition to 100% recycled plastic bottles throughout Canada,” stated Todd Parsons, CEO of Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited. “We’re on a journey to be the main beverage companion in Canada, and one of many methods we’re doing that’s by incomes our social license to function by driving a round financial system for our packaging. Every certainly one of these 100% recycled plastic bottles represents significant progress on that journey.”
The new 100% recycled plastic bottles* can be produced domestically on the Brampton, O.N., Calgary, A.B., Lachine, Q.C., and Richmond, B.C., manufacturing services, by Coke Canada Bottling. An impartial, family-owned business, Coke Canada Bottling services from coast-to-coast are home to six,000 numerous staff who proudly make, distribute, merchandise, and promote the most-loved drinks Canadians get pleasure from.
The Replay Arcade
Coca-Cola Canada is celebrating the launch—which follows final yr’s nationwide rollout of DASANI bottles created from 100% recycled plastic*—with a pop-up experiential activation in Toronto, Ontario referred to as The Replay Arcade.
Guests who herald an empty plastic beverage bottle (all manufacturers and sizes are welcome) to be recycled will obtain 12 sport tokens and a Coca-Cola beverage in a 100% recycled plastic bottle*. The Replay Arcade, positioned at Stackt Market at 28 Bathurst Street, can be open Nov. 10-12 from midday till 8 p.m. Entry is free and no tickets or reservations are wanted.
*Excluding caps and labels
About The Coca-Cola Company
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a complete beverage firm with merchandise offered in additional than 200 international locations and territories. Our firm’s goal is to refresh the world and make a distinction. We promote a number of billion-dollar manufacturers throughout a number of beverage classes worldwide. Our portfolio of glowing tender drink manufacturers consists of Coca-Cola, Sprite and Fanta. Our hydration, sports activities, espresso and tea manufacturers embody Dasani, smartwater, vitaminwater, Topo Chico, Powerade, Costa, Georgia, Gold Peak, Honest and Ayataka. Our diet, juice, dairy and plant-based beverage manufacturers embody Minute Maid, Simply, harmless, Del Valle, fairlife and AdeS. We’re consistently remodeling our portfolio, from lowering sugar in our drinks to bringing modern new merchandise to market. We search to positively impression folks’s lives, communities and the planet by means of water replenishment, packaging recycling, sustainable sourcing practices and carbon emissions reductions throughout our worth chain. Together with our bottling companions, we make use of greater than 700,000 folks, serving to convey financial alternative to native communities worldwide. Learn extra at www.coca-cola.ca.
SOURCE The Coca‑Cola Company
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