Investors who like more sustainable practices should cheer recent moves by some of the industry giants to make their products more ecologically friendly. The most recent name on this list is PepsiCo
The Pepsi bottle is composed of switch grass, pine bark, and corn husks, and looks just like the petroleum-based containers that are commonly used today. Eventually, the company plans to use oat hulls, orange peels, and other agricultural by-products -- refuse from from its Quaker Oats and Tropicana businesses -- to make the bottles. While the news made some big headlines recently, Pepsi still needs to formulate a way to scale this bottle up so that it can be used in everyday operations.
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Moves such as these are being seen across the consumer space as big names rush to increase sustainability and reduce costs. McDonald's
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