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Sweet Idea: Coke Uses Sugar Cane for Bottles

(Jan. 25) – Coca-Cola is going greener. The world's biggest seller of beverages has begun using a new bottle partially made from a plant-based material that, unlike petroleum-based plastic, is biodegradable. The new bottles for Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, and Coke Zero still contain only 30 percent sugar cane-based...

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Plants are living organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. Precise definitions of the kingdom vary, but as the term is used here, plants include familiar organisms such as flowering plants, conifers, ferns, mosses, and green algae, but do not include seaweeds like kelp, nor fungi and bacteria.

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