Filling & Packaging 27.10.2010
Odwalla ‘Plants’ Sustainable Seed With New Bottle Initiative
Next year is looking even greener for Odwalla. The natural health beverage company announced its plans to transition all of the brand’s single-serve bottles to PlantBottle™ packaging, HDPE made of up to…
Next year is looking even greener for Odwalla. The natural health beverage company announced its plans to transition all of the brand's single-serve bottles to PlantBottle™ packaging, HDPE made of up to 100 % plant-based materials* and 100 percent recyclable, in March 2011.

Combined with Odwalla's Plant A Tree Program, which has planted over 300,000 trees in the last 3 years, and Odwalla's Bloom Energy Fuel Cell technology commencing at Odwalla's plant in Dinuba, CA – which reduces the plant's carbon footprint by 35 percent while supplying 30 percent of the plant's energy needs – PlantBottle™ packaging is the latest step in Odwalla's efforts and innovations to reduce dependence on nonrenewable resources.
PlantBottle™ packaging consists of material derived from molasses and sugarcane juice. It has the same performance as traditional HDPE and PET bottles: no differences in shelf life, weight, composition or appearance. PlantBottle™ HDPE can be recycled again and again in today's recycling facilities. The redesigned plastic represents a significant step in our sustainability efforts and in protecting the planet.
*Minimum of 96 % plant-based HDPE (high-density polyethylene)