How Plastic Soda Bottles Are Made Take a behind the scenes look at the science of making soda bottles  email to friend
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Steve Spangler took us on a behind the scenes tour at the AMCOR PET Plant in Denver, Colorado to learn more about process used to make soda bottles. Jeff Cowan is the Senior Plant Manager who has seen many changes in the plastic bottle manufacturing business over the year. The trend is to engineer bottles using less and less plastic and to impress upon everyone the importance of recycling. While touring the manufacturing plant, Steve was impressed to see how much effort is put into the company's focus on recycling - from scrap plastic to the cardboard used in the shipping process. Nearly 10% of all of the PET used to make the 1.5 million bottles AMCOR produces daily comes from recycled plastic.