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(polyestertime) -- Nestle Waters North America Inc. has
committed to incorporating 50 percent recycled content in previously
virgin-material bottles for its Arrowhead brand of spring water, using
food-grade PET from CarbonLite Industries LLC’s new recycling plant in
Riverside.
Nestle will buy one-third of the USD58 million plant’s
output. Separately, bottler PepsiCo Inc. has agreed to purchase 40 percent.
Nestle chose the Arrowhead brand for the recycled content because it is
bottled primarily at the Nestle Waters bottling plant in Cabazon, CA, 40 miles
east of Riverside, where the plant is located, Verespej writes.
PepsiCo
did not specify how much recycled content might include in any of its beverage
containers, according to Plastics News. Paul Boykas, vice president of global
public policy for PepsiCo, noted, "We believe in investing in sustainable growth
for people and for the planet." |
