Sea World Parks and Entertainment to utilize CocaCola PlantBottle technology

Sea World Parks and Entertainment is working to introduce the first refillable plastic cup made up of biomaterials. Earlier than this project, the company worked for removal of plastic contents from theme parks. Now the company is putting emphasis on bioplastics. The recyclable and reusable cup launched by the company is available in all Sea World and Busch Gardens Parks all over the US. For the production of this reusable cup, company gets support from its partner, Coca Cola for using proprietary PlantBottle packaging technology. Under this technique, the conventional plastic is replaced with natural sugars.

Coca Cola introduced its PlantBottle Technology in 2009 during the time it introduced first recyclable plastic bottle developed from plant based materials partially. SeaWorld is planning to apply the plant bottle technology for production of refillable cups so that total 35 metric tons of annual CO2 emissions can be excluded. Read more about the deal here at - http://www.plasticsinfomart.com/seaworld-uses-coca-colas-plantbottle-technology-for-new-packaging/

Andrew Ngo, VP of culinary operations stated that working together with Coca Cola is great pleasure for them and both the companies are using resources to motivate people for using bio-based materials. The main objective of this collaboration among both the companies is to develop a beverage cup made up of sustainable materials.

Recyclable feedstock to produce biopolymer for production of biobased plastic

Exponential growth and development of bioplastics in the international plastic industry gives rise to eco friendly production in a fast manner. As bioplastics are obtained from natural sources and developed with the feature of biodegradability and composite properties, they are preferred by most of the plastic manufacturing groups all over the world. There are two main factors to influence the growth of these products; high level technical expertise and regularly increasing demand of sustainable products. PLA i.e. the polylactic acid became the most demanded bio-based polymer during recent years. Read more about this matter here at - http://www.smartquimic.com/index.php/english/item/130-bioplastics-new-materials-for-a-more-sustainable-future

Fermentation of sugars leads towards production of lactic acid and polylactic acid. Some of the renewable energy sources such as sugar beet, corn, sugar cane etc. are employed for development of PLA. As the subjected resources can be recycled at least once annually, the supply of energy resources for production of PLA remains adequate throughout the year. Nowadays, leading researchers focus their researches for development of lactic acid through non food crops.

The most important thing to know about the polymer is that after polymerization of lactic acid to polylactic acid, the biopolymer gains some good properties such as durability, thermo-stable feature and reinforced status.