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First off that will only happen in countries where the marketing negatives of not using recycled bottles impact sales (note that is not a lot of countries). Se
by DoingIsLearning 4y ago
First off that will only happen in countries where the marketing negatives of not using recycled bottles impact sales (note that is not a lot of countries).
Second, recycled bottles are not made 100% from recycled plastic. You can tell that claim is misleading because if they were made 100% from recycled plastic they would be near opaque and dark grey rather than the pristine transparency that customers expect. Plastic recycling has a colour/type separation problem.
Third unlike glass or aluminium, plastic becomes brittle after a few recycling cycles, so even in a perfect circular economy you would still have to introduce 'new' plastic into these batches.
Yes Coca-Cola, Pepsico, Unilever, Nestle, etc. may claim to use recycled plastic but they are not using recycled plastic exclusively and they never will be able, plastic recycling is and always has been a marketing exercise to externalize the cost of plastic from Industry to consumers.