Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:00:00 PDT Michael Ho http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110519/14403214344/dailydirt-saving-planet-using-better-packaging.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110519/14403214344/dailydirt-saving-planet-using-better-packaging.shtml

Pepsi has created a 100% plant-based plastic bottle, trumping Coke's environmentally friendly bottle that contains only 30% plant materials. The new Pepsi bottle will go into pilot production in 2012 -- right before the world ends, anyway. [url]

The first version of the biodegradable SunChip bag -- which was apparently unbearably noisy -- has been replaced by a new plant-based bag that isn't so loud. The real question, though, is when will they make a bag that you can just eat after you're done with the chips...? [url]

Coca-Cola has licensed its ("only 30% plant") PlantBottle bottles to Heinz for ketchup containers. So does that mean Pepsi will resell its 100% plant-based bottle for Hunt's ketchup bottles? [url]

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