US-based Heinz will adopt Coco-Cola's PET-bottle technology where its bottles will be made from ethanol for up to 30% for its ketchup products, both companies said Wednesday. Heinz expects to put 120 million bottles on the market made from this material, and said it will expand this globally "in time." Currently, sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil is being used to produce these bottles, the release said.
Coca-Coca introduced these more environment-friendly plant-based PET bottles in 2009 and plans to put 5 billion bottles on the market during 2011. It expects all of its plastic packaging to move to this type of PET by 2020. Heinz said that the step is part of the company's global sustainability initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, solid waste, water consumption and energy usage by at least 20% by 2015.
