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</v:background></xml><![endif]--><div class=WordSection1><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;mso-line-height-alt:12.0pt;background:white'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=4 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:14.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;letter-spacing:.25pt;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Plastic by Any Other Name<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h2><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><b style='mso-ansi-font-weight:normal;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-weight:normal'>Coke and Pepsi's plant-based bottles still damage the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h1><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><i><font size=2 color="#660033" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#660033;font-style:italic'>By Amy Westervelt </span></font></i><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>First came the press releases: In March, PepsiCo touted the "<u><a href="http://www.pepsico.com/PressRelease/PepsiCo-Develops-Worlds-First-100-Percent-Plant-Based-Renewably-Sourced-PET-Bott03152011.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>World's First 100 Percent Plant-Based, Renewably Sourced PET Bottle</span></font></a>,</u>" prompting CocaCola to stammer, "<u><a href="http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/dynamic/press_center/2011/04/odwalla-announces-plantbottle-packaging.html" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Odwalla</span></font></a></u></span></font><font size=2 color="#0066cc"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#0066CC'> First to Market with up to 100 Percent PlantBottle™ Packaging</span></font><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>." The subsequent headlines bumped the hype up a notch: "<u><a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2011/0315/Pepsi-bottles-no-more-plastic" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Pepsi bottles: no more plastic</span></font></a></u>" (<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Christian Science Monitor</span></font></i></em>), "<u><a href="http://www.greenbiz.com/news/2011/03/15/pepsi-ups-ante-plant-based-bottles-100-percent-non-plastic-bottle" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Pepsi Ups Ante on Plant-Based Bottles with 100% Non-Plastic Bottle</span></font></a></u>" (<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>GreenBiz</span></font></i></em>),<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></font></i></em>"<u><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/coca-cola-renewable-bottle" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Coca Cola—designing bottles from recycled plastic and plant by-product</span></font></a></u>" (<em><i><font face=Arial><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Guardian</span></font></i></em>). Last month, Coca-Cola released a commercial for its Dasani-brand bottled water arguing that its partly plant-based packaging is "designed to make a difference":<span style='text-transform:uppercase'> </span></span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D;text-transform:uppercase'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>But despite all the buzz, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo's plant-based bottles are still very much plastic.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>The companies have merely replaced the fossil fuels (petroleum and natural gas) traditionally used to make their plastic bottles with ethanol from renewable sources (plant waste in Pepsi's case and Brazilian sugar cane in Coke's). Though these initial inputs come from renewable, lower-carbon sources, the resulting plastics are chemically identical to the polyethylene terepthalate, or PET, and high-density polyethylene, or HDPE, that regular plastic bottles are made of—<a href="http://myplasticfreelife.com/2011/04/the-truth-about-pepsis-new-plant-based-pet-plastic-bottle/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>a fact the companies acknowledge</span></font></a>. And once the inputs become plastic, they carry all the same environmental impacts as plastic made from fossil fuels: They don't biodegrade, they pollute the world's oceans and soils, and still leach potentially harmful chemicals into our food.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>"They're just using plants to make the same polymers you find in other plastics. It has zero effect on plastic pollution," says Marcus Eriksen, a marine expert who co-founded the nonprofit <u><a href="http://5gyres.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>5 Gyres</span></font></a></u> a few years ago to study ocean plasticization in areas like the <u><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>Great Pacific Garbage Patch</span></font></a></u>. </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=SpellE><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Eriksen</span></font></span><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> and his crew just finished exploring the world's five major oceanic gyres (slow-moving currents that create massive whirlpools where plastic can accumulate). They've found "plastic soup"—water thick with tiny bits of plastic—in all five. Eriksen's team and other researchers have also found larger chunks of plastic on the various islands scattered throughout the gyres, and in the bellies of <u><a href="http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/midway/#CF000313%2018x24" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>dead birds</span></font></a></u>, fish, and animals who fill themselves up with plastic bits that they mistake for fish and <u><a href="http://www.plasticfreetimes.com/gyres-and-marine-life" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>eventually die because they can't digest the stuff</span></font></a></u>. </span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Likewise, plastic—plant-based or otherwise—harms human health. The dangers of chemical additives commonly used in plastic, such as pthalates and bisphenol A, have been <u><a href="http://www.plasticfreetimes.com/plastics-and-human-health" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>widely publicized</span></font></a></u>; the two have been linked to obesity, autism, and various forms of cancer.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <a name="page_start"></a><a name=p2></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>"Some <span class=SpellE>bioplastics</span> formulations use the same types of additives as petroleum or natural gas-based plastics," acknowledges Melissa Hockstad, a vice president at <a href="http://www.plasticsindustry.org/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>SPI</span></font></a>, a trade association for the industry. In other words, plant plastics are not necessarily free of BPA and pthalates. There's no way to know whether a particular plant-based plastic bottle includes these chemicals, since all plastic "recipes" are protected as trade secrets. But since traditional PET and HDPE manufacturers tend to use them to produce the right level of pliability and clarity, there's a very good chance that plant-based versions of PET and HDPE contain them, too. Hockstad says "some companies have been working on the development of bio-based" alternatives. But the key phrase is "working on the development of," as in, those additives don't exist yet and may never.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>That said, there's a kernel of real progress amid the plant-plastic hype. The new bottles reduce the use of fossil fuels and improve recyclability. But there's a big difference between "recyclable" and "recycled." While all bioplastics are technically "recyclable," current recycling systems are not set up to recycle those that don't mimic existing plastics. The most common bioplastics include polylactic acid, which is made from corn starch, tapioca, or sugar cane. When these bioplastics arrive at a recycling center, they are separated out as waste.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>In this sense, Coke and Pepsi opting to create plant-based HDPE and PET instead of other bioplastics is applaudable. Unfortunately, people still recycle only a small fraction of the plastic bottles they use, regardless of how those bottles are made. (Manufacturers typically put the recycling rate for PET at 27 percent, while recycling advocates suggest it's more like 21 percent.) Most plant-based bottles, sadly, will end up in landfills or along the side of the road.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>As such, it's crucial not to misread plant-based as biodegradable. "As a recycler, I'm much happier with the bioresins that we're able to recycle, but I don't want it to turn into something where people think because they're buying a plant bottle, they can be wasteful," says Gerry Fishbeck, vice president of the <a href="http://www.urrc.net/new/pages/" target="_blank"><font color="#0066cc"><span style='color:#0066CC;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'>United Resource Recovery Corp.</span></font></a>, a large recycling company that has a partnership with Coca-Cola.</span></font><font size=2 color="#1f497d"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt'><font size=2 color="#1f497d" face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Article continues at: </span></font><font size=2 color=black><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'><a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2296858/pagenum/all/#p2">http://www.slate.com/id/2296858/pagenum/all/#p2</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>