The European brewer is poised be among the first companies to take advantage of a new type of plant-based plastic made from sustainably-grown corn, wheat or beet crops.
Netherlands biochemical company Avantium has found a way to use plant sugars to create plastic drink bottles, food packaging films, and textile fibres, as an alternative to current packaging materials made from fossil-based chemicals.
These plant sugars are broken down into chemical structures and then rearranged to form plastic bottles strong enough to contain carbonated beverages – and these are also compostable and recyclable.