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Coca Cola launches a bottle made from 100% plant-based plastic

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  By: Shofu Babalola The Coca‑Cola Company’s sustainable packaging journey crosses a major milestone this week with the unveiling of its first-ever beverage bottle made from 100% plant-based plastic, excluding the cap and label, that has been made using technologies that are ready for commercial scale. The prototype bottle comes more than a decade after the company’s PlantBottle™ debuted as the world’s first recyclable PET plastic bottle made with up to 30% plant-based material. A limited run of approximately 900 of the prototype bottles have been produced. The newly unveiled plant-based bottle arrives more than a decade after the company first introduced its so-called Plant-Bottle, consisting of recyclable.   PET, the world’s most recycled plastic, comprises two molecules: approximately 30% monoethylene glycol (MEG) and 70% terephthalic acid (PTA). The original PlantBottle™, introduced in 2009, includes MEG from sugarcane, but the PTA has been from oil-based sources until now. PlantBo
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A Journey With Oxygen- Onireti Esther

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I  , hydrogen journey to the atmosphere with oxygen today.  I live on the surface of the earth, but I have family members who live in the sun, the stars and even Jupiter. Oxygen and I make ourselves gaseous for this journey. We are affected by temperature, humidity, wind speed and solar radiation, and though all of these try to break us, we stand stronger and transform better into a combined gaseous state.  From the oceans we journey,  from the soil we journey, from the snow and even the ice we journey, day and night, we journey. Though I can travel with nitrogen, halogens, and yes carbon! oxygen is my favorite companion.  With oxygen I exist abundantly. Oh my readers, don't get lost, I and oxygen journey to form rain. Our journey brings you that scent of fresh storm, and our delicious feel dripping down your skin makes you want to stretch your arms to the sky happily Chem-preneur We come down from the sky soft as we do not contain salts, minerals, and we haven't been treated w
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Register Now: Chem-preneurs Application form

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    Chem-intellect is a group of intellectuals working together with the sole aim of innovation and recreation. It helps to enhance its members in the area of entrepreneurship , creativity, and self-confidence. Chem-Intellect was founded during the 2007/2008 academic session by four articulate students of the department of chemistry university of Ibadan. The group was initially called GENERATION NEXT but was later changed to chem-intellect. The group is aimed at building students through seminars, workshops, exposure and training as this is necessary to build a secure future in an ever dynamic world. Chem-intellect bridges the gap between theoretical and practical chemistry. Chem-intellect is sub-grouped into three major categories: ·          Research ·          Project coordinating unit ·          Quiz and expository unit   Chem-preneurs is a section under chem-intellect, whose main aim is to promote all entrepreneurs in the department and beyond, we have made all our o
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