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Buy a bottle of Co-Op cherryade today and you won't just be getting a sugar hit -- you'll also be closing the recycling loop. Starting now, all the supermarket's own-brand fizzy drinks will be packaged in recycled plastic bottles.
So what's the difference? None to you, unless you have an intimate knowledge of polyethylene terephthalate plastic, but the move should save 1,212 tonnes of carbon dioxide a year. The Co-Op also reckons it'll save 808 tonnes of virgin plastic each year.
From where SmartPlanet's sitting, it's fast looking like recycled plastic bottles will be the future rather than compostable ones. Drinks firms such as Innocent and Belu have dabbled in corn starch compostable bottles, but Innocent said earlier this year it was switching to 100 per cent recycled plastic. Innocent once told me one of the problems with compostable bottles is few people actually compost them at home and they don't recycle well. Another downer for compost bottles is that, as an office I used to work at found out, they spring holes after a long time as the bottle breaks down.
So, anyway -- good news from the Co-Op. But who still drinks cherryade? I'll be supping on the ginger ale, snug in its freshly recycled bottle.
For more on Co-Op's green moves, see our previous stories here, here, here and -- phew -- here.
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