Important Award to Pepsi rPET Bottles

Standing out as one of PepsiCo's largest operations PepsiCo Turkeycontinues to make a name for itself with the success it has achieved. The bottles produced by Meltem Kimya for Pepsi, Yedigün and Fruko, produced from 1% recycled pet packaging suitable for contact with food, received the first prize at the WorldStar Global Packaging Awards. Pepsi, Yedigün and Fruko's XNUMX-liter bottles stand out as the first bottles produced entirely from rPET in Turkey.

Standing out as one of the largest operations of PepsiCo, one of the leading companies in the field of sustainability in the world, PepsiCo Turkey continues to add to its successes with its efforts in line with the pep+ strategy.

PepsiCo's bottle, which is a first in Turkey and produced from 2022% recycled pet packaging, which took its place on the shelves in 34, received the first prize at the WorldStar Global Packaging Awards organized by the World Packaging Organization with more than 300 participants from over XNUMX countries every year. .

One hundred percent recycled rPETs, implemented by Meltem Kimya, are produced by the chemical depolymerization method. Toxic substances are completely removed in the production of rPET, which has no other example in the world.

PepsiCo Turkey, which has taken important steps in the field of sustainable packaging; It is also one of the leading companies in the use of recycled PET. It produces 1 liter PET bottles, which it uses in carbonated beverage products such as Pepsi, Yedigün and Fruko, from 100% recycled plastic. In addition to this application, which is a first in the beverage industry, all 6 plants of PepsiCo Turkey, which manages sustainability with an end-to-end sustainable approach in line with PepsiCo's positive strategy, operate zero waste, all certified with the Zero Waste Certificate of the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization.

Source: HORECA Trend and PepsiCo