Again coca-cola can make the full logistical operation EV based (bar maritime) and offset with deploying renewables. If they care.
Glass can be either washed (even more energy saving) or fully recycled, all the time, 100% of the time.
PET :
- can only be recyclable a few N cycles and becomes increasingly brittle when recycled.
- There is no such thing as transparent recycled PET
Those are the two core reasons why none of the major manufacturers actually use recycled PET or use it fractionally (10 to 30% PET, which marketing will spin with 'using (some) plastic from 100% recycled materials')
The sad story about the economics of this is that recycled PET is not nearly good quality enough to be used for packaging leading to it being used in plastic poles or road substrates and further contributing to microplastics in the waterways.
Again coca-cola can make the full logistical operation EV based (bar maritime) and offset with deploying renewables. If they care.
Glass can be either washed (even more energy saving) or fully recycled, all the time, 100% of the time.
PET :
- can only be recyclable a few N cycles and becomes increasingly brittle when recycled.
- There is no such thing as transparent recycled PET
Those are the two core reasons why none of the major manufacturers actually use recycled PET or use it fractionally (10 to 30% PET, which marketing will spin with 'using (some) plastic from 100% recycled materials')
The sad story about the economics of this is that recycled PET is not nearly good quality enough to be used for packaging leading to it being used in plastic poles or road substrates and further contributing to microplastics in the waterways.
It's a scam through and through.