PepsiCo is committing to eliminate all virgin plastic from its Pepsi brand beverage bottles sold in nine European Union markets by 2022. The company says it will package the entire range of beverages under that brand with plastics recycled from post- consumer packaging (recycled polyethylene terephthalate, or ‘rPET’). PepsiCo says it will also continue its progress towards growing reuse and refill systems such as SodaStream.
The company estimates that the move to 100 percent rPET for these beverage bottles will eliminate more than 70,000 tonnes of virgin, fossil-fuel based plastic per year, and will lower carbon emissions per bottle by approximately 40 percent. In 2018, the company had announced that it would achieve 50 percent rPET usage across the EU by 2030; it has already reached 30 percent.
Germany, Poland, Romania, Greece and Spain will switch to 100 percent rPET in 2021, while France, Great Britain, Belgium and Luxembourg will be at 100 percent rPET in 2022. The move applies to both company-owned and franchise bottlers in the relevant markets. In France, Great Britain, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg the commitpepment goes beyond Pepsi brands, to include all soft drinks, for example 7Up, Mountain Dew and Lipton Ice Tea. Poland and Romania will also use 100 percent rPET in Mirinda.
Source: New Food Magazine
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