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Andy Warhol, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962
That familiarity was part of Andy Warhol's thinking when he made Green Coca-Cola Bottles. “The President drinks coke,” said Warhol, “and you can drink Coca-Cola, too. . .
About Green Coca-Cola Bottles
Andy Warhol's Green Coca-Cola Bottles is a famous artwork that was created in 1962 by using his pioneering silkscreen technique. The painting features 112 almost identical Coca-Cola bottles arranged in rows with the logo below. It is considered a founding painting of the pop art movement.
Warhol's use of the Coke bottle came at a time when he was establishing himself as an artist and he used the bottle as inspiration to develop his own identity.
Because of the clear glass, UV rays were able to penetrate the beer and alter the flavor. Turning bottles brown, a darker color that would block out the rays, was the solution. Due to a scarcity of brown glass after WWII, green bottles became popular.
Turns out, green plastic isn't green in the environmental sense. A colored bottle contaminates the recycling stream and has to be separated out, increasing the chances it ends up in a landfill.
“Technically, green-colored plastic is recyclable,” says Alpa Sutaria, sustainability leader for the Coca-Cola Company North America, which owns the Sprite brand. But, she says, “it is a challenge to reuse that material in the form of high-quality, food-grade recycled PET.
The bottles used in those days were simple straight-sided bottles that were typically brown or clear. The Coca‑Cola Company required that the bottlers emboss the famous Coca‑Cola logo onto every bottle.
“Taking colors out of bottles improves the quality of the recycled material,” Ochoa said in Coke's press release. “This transition will help increase availability of food-grade rPET. When recycled, clear PET Sprite bottles can be remade into bottles, helping drive a circular economy for plastic.”
On April 5, 2017, it was announced that due to a decrease in sales, and increase in Coca-Cola Zero Sugar sales, that Life would no longer be sold and it was discontinued in June 2017. The list of ingredients is carbonated water, cane sugar, caramel color, caffeine, phosphoric acid, and stevia.
So, we have three stevia colas up for tasting: Green Cola, Coca Cola with Stevia, and Vegan Cola. Green Cola's overall taste is pretty similar to Coke, but it has a faintly herbal aftertaste, almost like Cockta (the old Yugoslav Coke substitute). Unsurprisingly, Coke with Stevia tastes more like Coke.
Green polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is the additive used to give Sprite bottles that iconic green tint for the past 60 years — and it's what makes Sprite bottles difficult to recycle into new bottles.
"Even though most sodas have an acidic pH and will not support the growth of disease-causing bacteria, there is no research supporting that a 41-year-old expired Coke is safe to drink."
Green bottles entered the beer scene around WWII because the materials needed to make brown bottles were in high demand. Companies swapped out their brown glass bottles for green, not wanting to stick high-quality beer back into poor-performing clear bottles.
The bubbles in the carbonation can also stimulate the release of stomach acid, which can help to break down food in the stomach. Additionally, the lemon-lime flavor of Sprite might be able to help settle an upset stomach by neutralizing stomach acidity and providing a refreshing taste.
The lemon-lime drink known today as Sprite was developed in West Germany in 1959 as Fanta Klare Zitrone ("Fanta Clear Lemon" in English) and was introduced in the United States under the Sprite name in 1961 as a competitor to 7 Up.
Encore: Sprite ditches its iconic green bottle, but critics say it's not enough For decades, Sprite has come in green bottles, but the company says clear plastic is more easily recycled. Environmentalists say the issue is not the color but the single-use plastic.
The toughest bottles to collect are the early Hutchinson bottles, the first bottles for Coca‑Cola®, which were used from the mid-1890s to the early years of the 20th Century. Because they were in the market for a limited period of time, they're hard to find.
Values can range from a few dollars to hundreds or even thousands: Regular, vintage Coke bottles start at around $10, and anniversary models or special editions can sell for about $30, reports Country Living.
*NOTE* (this paragraph added to webpage on January 4, 2014) : There are many types of authentic older amber (“beer bottle brown”) glass Coke bottles in existence (from a variety of cities across the US), but they are usually the “STRAIGHT SIDES” types made between approximately 1900 and 1920.
To make recycling its bottles easier, Coca-Cola announced it will switch all of its green PET to clear PET in coming months. Sprite bottles made the transition on Aug.
One of those changes will impact Sprite's iconic green bottle, which will be discontinued after nearly six decades on the market. Starting August 1, the bubbly beverage will be served in clear plastic bottles to boost its chances of being recycled into other containers after their initial use.
The well-known green hue will still be used on Sprite labels. Other beverages that use green bottles in Coke's portfolio, including Fresca, Seagram's and Mello Yello, will also be replaced with clear containers in the coming months.