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Scrapple: Plant-based bottles, 106% recycling, cardboard windshield

Scrapple

Coke is moving toward bottles made entirely from plant waste material. Plant bottles in bottling plants!

What may be the greenest material around? Steel. More is recycled than paper, plastic, glass, copper and aluminum combined. Steel is recycled from automobiles at a rate of 106% (because newer cars are lighter and use high-strength steel). See other impressive info here (opens a PDF).

Man trucks 400 miles with cardboard windshield.

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