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To Help Save the Planet, Coca-Cola Tries out a New Bottle - Made of Paper
Red State.com ^ | February 14, 2021 | Alex Parker

Posted on 02/14/2021 10:08:24 AM PST by Kaslin

Have you been unfortunate fortunate enough to try a paper straw?

Being on the West Coast, I’ve had the pleasure.

Many, many times.

For those of you yet to partake, you’ll love it — assuming you have the digestive system of a goat.

As for function, the straw pulls double duty.

For the first 4 minutes, it allows you to swallow liquid.

At 4:01 and beyond — in my experience — it feeds you a paper stick.

MMMmmmMMM good.

Apropos, Coca-Cola’s about to try a paper bottle.

From The Daily Wire:

Coca-Cola plans to do a test-run of 2,000 paper bottles this summer to see how they perform in the marketplace and with consumers. The prototype was made “by a Danish company from an extra-long paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner.” It is a first step in a long-term project of completely ridding plastic from the company’s drink containers.

Per the British Broadcasting Company, the mission “is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing gas escaping from carbonated drinks.”

And here’s a trick: “The barrier must…ensure no [fibers] flake off into the liquid.”

Because:

[Failure would risk] altering the taste of the drink — or potentially fall foul of health and safety checks.

As worded by the BBC, America’s favorite soft drink aims to produce “zero waste by 2030.”

Clearly, it’s impossible to produce no waste. But Coke has reason to turn a new leaf: Last year, charity organization Break Free From Plastic deemed it the world’s number one plastic polluter.

In service to a transformation, the Danish enterprise — Paper Bottle Company, or Paboco — has accomplished quite a feat — the biodegradable container had to be moldable to various shapes as well as take inked labels.

More from BBC:

After more than seven years of lab work, the firm is now ready to host a trial in Hungary this summer of Coca-Cola’s fruit drink Adez. Initially, this will involve 2,000 bottles distributed via a local retail chain.

And they’re not just doing it for Coke:

Absolut, the vodka-maker, is due to test 2,000 paper bottles of it own in the UK and Sweden of its pre-mixed, carbonated raspberry drink. And beer company Carlsberg is also building prototypes of a paper beer bottle.

So how do you make curved paper pass muster?

Michael Michelsen, the firm’s commercial manager, says the bottles are formed out of a single piece of paper-fibre-based material to give them strength.

“That’s part of the secret really,” he explained, adding that [molding] a single object – rather than relying on joins – ensured the bonds between the fibres stayed robust.

“With a clever combination of product design and the strong [fiber] blend, that’s what makes it really possible to not break under pressure.”

In theory, it’s been sufficiently engineered.

However — as noted by Michael — they won’t know for sure ’til taking a real-world shot.

Would you buy a soft drink contained in curved paper?

You may soon get your chance.

When the time comes, a word of advice: Don’t use a paper straw.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society; Weather
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangehoax; cocacola; coke; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; paperbottle; plastic; pollution; waste; wokecoke
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To: DEPcom

That is too simple.

You forget that it is 2021. Everything requires a complex expensive solution that makes things worse.


41 posted on 02/14/2021 10:34:52 AM PST by moviefan8
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To: mylife

Living in Europe I deal with these daily. The plastic lining makes it not able to be recycled as it is neither solid paper or 100% plastic. It actually adds to landfills and incineration but it makes the Woke crowd happy. I never understood why not just use metal or glass. Or if coating paper just use wax.


42 posted on 02/14/2021 10:34:53 AM PST by Trinity5
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To: joshua c

May just happen. After all, how many people bought “New Coke” when it came out?


43 posted on 02/14/2021 10:34:56 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: skr

“Maybe they should just go back to glass bottles.”
Back in the mid-50’s, I remember collecting bottles for the deposit money. Wasn’t much but to a 10 y/o kid it seemed like a lot.


44 posted on 02/14/2021 10:34:58 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: EEGator

Grape gravy?

(I cheated and looked at the script)


45 posted on 02/14/2021 10:37:56 AM PST by Hieronymus (“I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.”)
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To: FatherofFive
I agree, I don't drink coke, I drink but very seldom Sprite or Canada Dry, and Sierra Mist. I can not tolerate 7 UP

Mountain Dew is bad for you if have Diabetes, like Type? Perhaps also with Type 1. I found that out when I got me a Mountain Dew one time. My blood sugar went sky high.

46 posted on 02/14/2021 10:39:56 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin
Glass coke bottles had a classic shape, and are collectibles:
https://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5571037/il_fullxfull.233451900.jpg
If a deposit is charged, but never returned, the company would makes money. People bought them in cases, and returned the empties in the cases. It worked, and the deposit kept the liter down. There is no need for these new ideas.
47 posted on 02/14/2021 10:40:09 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Kaslin

Sheep bladders would work. Naw, that’d upset the vegans and PETA.


48 posted on 02/14/2021 10:42:25 AM PST by bgill (Which came first Gates and Fauci's vax or covid?)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

I thought we couldn’t have paper shopping bags anymore.


49 posted on 02/14/2021 10:43:51 AM PST by bgill (Which came first Gates and Fauci's vax or covid?)
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To: Trinity5

So retarded!!!


50 posted on 02/14/2021 10:46:15 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: allendale

I maintain that “New Coke” was introduced as part of a plan.
“Classic Coke”, when reintroduced, switched from sugar to corn syrup.


51 posted on 02/14/2021 10:49:38 AM PST by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
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To: Leaning Right

Daffodils and pansies.

52 posted on 02/14/2021 10:49:47 AM PST by bgill (Which came first Gates and Fauci's vax or covid?)
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To: DEPcom

Broken glass bottles can be hazardous to the health of a car tire. How’s about cans? Cans instead of glass. Of course a car tire could be made of recycled cans. It just has not yet been done. Maybe a monorail. Yeah, that’s the ticket.


53 posted on 02/14/2021 10:51:58 AM PST by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: Kaslin

Aluminum is 100% recyclable


54 posted on 02/14/2021 10:52:57 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: jerod

That is one of the big mistake Americans made. Also included are that forests are overgrown with brush. I was born and raised in Germany and I miss the forests in Germany. Sometimes my class went to a forest in the area.


55 posted on 02/14/2021 10:53:17 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Hieronymus

Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

It’s from the scene where they’re deciding if a woman is a witch.


56 posted on 02/14/2021 10:53:38 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Wood, I think.


57 posted on 02/14/2021 10:54:02 AM PST by Kaslin (Joe Biden will never be my President, and neither will Kamala Harris)
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To: Kaslin

I remember when they used to wash, sterilize, and reuse glass bottles. Why did they stop doing that?


58 posted on 02/14/2021 10:54:53 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: Kaslin

New paper straws are like kicking felt.


59 posted on 02/14/2021 10:56:39 AM PST by cp124
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To: DEPcom

And they all laugh at us old timers.

Us old timers laugh at how FRIGGAN DAM STUPID these youngsters are.


60 posted on 02/14/2021 10:59:15 AM PST by crz
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