Coca-Cola six packs are getting more eco-friendly. A bottler in Philadelphia is dropping the plastic rings and replacing them with a fiber based paper package. It’s basically a rectangular piece of cardboard that fits over the top of six cans and holds them there. What’s interesting is that these have been used all over Europe for a while, but this is the first time ever in the United States. Using them at this one bottling plant alone is estimated to help eliminate 75,000 pounds of plastic every year. The new paper packaging is also easy to recycle.
I don’t normally buy things that require the plastic rings. However, when I do, I cut all the rings open. I literally get visions of baby seals, birds and Nemo getting their heads trapped and choking getting suffocated if I don’t do it right away. I think about cutting them into tiny pieces, but that seems like it would be just as bad because animals might eat them and get hurt that way.
We’ve partnered with Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages to install KeelClip™ 1600 machinery in its Elmsford, NY production facility – a first for the US – and a transition that will remove 75,000lbs of plastic packaging per year from the supply chain. More: https://t.co/v6LzlnmoEm pic.twitter.com/JVAjh30JTL
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