BIG CORPORATIONS TO GO GREEN
COCA COLA PLANS AT 100% RECYCLING
The non-alcoholic beverage giant, Coca Cola is aiming to recycle or reuse all the Aluminium beverage cans that they sell in America. At present, Coca Cola uses about 60% recycled Aluminium in its beverage cans. Coca Cola has already set a goal to recycle or reuse 100 percentages of its PET plastic bottles.
The largest beverage producers announced that they will be spending a whooping $60 million in a series of recycling initiatives and in building the world’s largest PET bottle-to-bottle recycling plant in Spartanburg, S.C. The 30 acre recycling plant is expected to produce the equivalent of nearly 2 billion 20 ounce Coca Cola bottles via recycled PET when it opens in 2009.
Coca Cola Enterprises-Inc launched Coca Cola recycling LLC in the year 2007 to recover and recycle all the packaging materials used by them. “By the end of 2008, Coca Cola recycling will recycle more than 100 million pounds each of PET and Aluminium”, said Mr. John Burgess, the President and Chief operating officer of Coca-Cola recycling.
However Coca Cola now focuses on the “greener side of life”.
PEPSICO BUILDS A LIFECYCLE OF ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE PACKAGING
PepsiCo, one of the world’s largest food and non-alcoholic Beverage Company also play an important role in recycling. All Pepsi containers are designed to be recyclable. More than 50% of the Pepsi containers were recycled in 2000. Pepsi beverage containers are recycled at a rate of 48 million per day. Moreover, Pepsi created a program called “Performance with purpose” to help sustain the environment while continuing profit and growth. The purpose of this program includes three goals: environment sustainability, human knowledge of issues and talent sustainability. The attraction of this program is that it hires and rewards the best and brightest.
PepsiCo has many goals and target set for reduction of energy, water, resources and more for the year 2015. The interesting news is that PepsiCo has won the “Energy Star Partner of the Year” award three times in a row.
BOEING EXPANDS AICRAFT RECYCLING RATE
Boeing, the world’s leading aerospace company recognizes the serious challenges faced by our ecosystem. So, they are committed in reducing the effects of their operations, products and services. Boeing, who co-founded the ‘Aircraft Fleet Recycling Association’, targets 25 percent improvement for solid waste recycling rates by the year 2012. Boeing claims that about 80 percent of the materials used in Airplanes can be recycled. Boeing has also received the National Recycling coalition’s top honor for corporate recyclers in 1995.
Today Boeing expands its wings and aims at 90 percent recycling rate in near future. Let’s hope more scrap planes in the graveyard will get a rebirth.