DailyDirt: Saving The Planet By Using Better Packaging
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Petroleum-based plastics have been getting a bit of bad publicity recently, as "greener" plastics made from renewable plant materials are becoming more cost effective. It also doesn't hurt that these new plant-plastics can perform about as well as traditional plastics in a variety of consumer packaging. Here are a few examples of some environmentally-friendly containers.- Pepsi has created a 100% plant-based plastic bottle, trumping Coke's environmentally friendly bottle that contains only 30% plant materials. The new Pepsi bottle will go into pilot production in 2012 -- right before the world ends, anyway. [url]
- The first version of the biodegradable SunChip bag -- which was apparently unbearably noisy -- has been replaced by a new plant-based bag that isn't so loud. The real question, though, is when will they make a bag that you can just eat after you're done with the chips...? [url]
- Coca-Cola has licensed its ("only 30% plant") PlantBottle bottles to Heinz for ketchup containers. So does that mean Pepsi will resell its 100% plant-based bottle for Hunt's ketchup bottles? [url]
- To discover more interesting science-related stuff, check out what's currently floating around the StumbleUpon universe. [url]
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Filed Under: bioplastics, consumer packaging, petroleum, plastics
Companies: coca-cola, heinz, hunt's, pepsi
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Law Of Unintended Consequences
In other words, make something more efficient or “green” to consume, and they will consume more of it.
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By all means, make better bottles, just don't tell me about it!
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So you want to save the planet by doing less to destroy it, but you'll still be doing something to destroy it.
How about, instead of saving the planet, you do nothing to destroy it. The planet doesn't need humanity to save it, it just needs it to stop destroying it.
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Those things are worthless and hard to recycle to boot.
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I don't mind recycled packaging, decomposable packaging, or green packaging, although I grow a bit weary of the dotwhacks on the packaging extolling how virtuous the company is.
I do mind being forced to use an inferior product. Consumers are weary of 'guilt marketing'... a company can't say 'suffer through our product, it's the responsible thing to do.' Their green product has to be equal or better to the alternative, or it won't sell.
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