In other Coke news, the soda company recently announced it was putting down $60 million to build the world’s largest plastic-bottle-to-bottle recycling plant. The company plans to recycle or reuse 100 percent of its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles in the U.S.
The 30-acre plant will be built in Spartanburg, South Carolina and is expected to produce the equivalent of nearly two billion 20-ounce Coca-Cola bottles via recycled PET when it opens in 2009. Over the next decade the plant will eliminate the production of one million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions. That's like taking over 200,000 cars off the road.
No word on how they're going to sift through people's recyclables looking for Coca-Cola affiliated bottles. Maybe they'll hire all the homeless people that already go through blue garbage cans on trash day to help out!
[photo vis MSNBC]
