Coca Cola and Pepsi compete over the decades with various colors. After brown (cola), orange (juice), blue (sport drinks) and clear (water) colors the race between Coca Cola and Pepsi continue for Greener Bottles.

New York / NationalTurk – Over their decades of fierce competition, the battle between beverage companies Coca-Cola and PepsiCo has taken on many colors. Now the Coca Cola Pepsi battle continues in a new front as Pepsi plans to make bottles out of agricultural products, while Coca-Cola’s Dasani water bottles use already some plant-based plastics.

Now Coca Cola and Pepsi are fighting over green: The beverage rivals are battling for being the first to produce a plastic soda bottle made entirely from plants.

Coca Cola vs Pepsi : The green bootle battle

But despite dueling announcements claiming technological achievements, consumers should not expect to see many all-plant bottles on store shelves any time soon. Neither Coca Cola nor PepsiCo is confident enough in the new technology to state when, or even if, they will be able to deliver on their environmental ambitions.

Coca Cola try to gain the upper hand with plans to work with three tech companies that are developing competing technologies to make plastic from plants, with bottles rolling out to consumers in perhaps a few years.

PepsiCo is aiming to forge ahead that timeline and claim the 100 % green label first. Pepsi declared in March that it had cracked the code of the all-plant plastic bottle, and on Thursday, it declared that it was on schedule to conduct a test next year that involved producing 200,000 bottles made from plant-only plastic.

Pepsi and Coca Cola test green bottle technologies for commercial purpose

Pepsi should wait until they administer the test, company executives say they would not be able to predict when large-scale production of such bottles might start before any test are conducted. If the test should fail to prove that the technologies favored by Pepsi are cost-effective at a commercial scale, more experimentation will be needed, announced Denise H. Lefebvre, the company’s vice president for global beverage packaging.

Coke, Coca Cola as it is known in the rest of the world, was the first undertaker in the green bottle battle between Coca Cola and Pepsi , when in 2009 it began selling Dasani water in the US in bottles made with up to 30 percent plant-based plastics.

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