USA – Car manufacturer Ford has built a test vehicle incorporating fabric made from recycled plastic Coca-Cola bottles.
The Ford Fusion Energi plug-in hybrid uses Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle fabric in its seat cushions, seat backs, head restraints, door panel inserts and headliners. By doing so, the companies are showing ‘the broad potential to leverage renewable materials that help replace petroleum and other fossil fuels and reduce the overall environmental impact of future vehicles’, says a Ford spokesman.
‘This collaboration with Ford demonstrates that PlantBottle technology can be applied anywhere PET plastic is traditionally used, but with a lighter footprint on the planet,’ adds a Coca-Cola representative.
In the past, Ford’s Fusion cars have incorporated sound-absorbing denim material and seat cushions made from recycled plastic bottles. Coca-Cola’s PlantBottle packaging comprises 22.5% plant material such as sugar cane ‘grown in sustainably-managed plantations in Brazil’, the soft drinks giant explains on its website.
Source: Greener Ideal
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