Packaging
This lets us get our drinks to you in tiptop condition. We're always looking for ways to make our packaging lighter and to use more recycled material in it. For us, packaging isn't waste, but something that can be used again and again through recycling.
Aluminium
Our cans are made from 50% recycled aluminium. We have made our cans as light as physically possible and the can 'wall' is now the thickness of a human hair. At our Wakefield factory, our can supplier has a factory right next door to ours and delivers cans to us through a hole in the wall!
Plastic
Our bottles are made from PET plastic - we're aiming to use 25% recycled plastic in all our bottles by 2012. Our 500ml plastic bottle weighed 39g in 1994, it now weighs just 24g. Plastic bottles are made by heating up a test tube sized plastic 'preform' and blowing super compressed air into it to mould it to the shape of a bottle. We do this all onsite at our Wakefield factory to cut down on transportation.
Glass
Our bottles are made from around 40% recycled glass. We've cut the weight of our iconic glass bottles by 20% since 2007, slimming it down from 263g to 210g. We produce around 67 million of our iconic glass Coca-Cola contour bottles each year.
