In one of the Turtle Tips at the end of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” animated series that aired during the late 1980s and early ’90s, Michelangelo opens the refrigerator to figure out what to eat. However, the other turtles inform him that he’s wasting electricity and energy that powers the appliance. Instead, the pizza-loving turtle thinks about what he wants to eat before opening the refrigerator, teaching kids watching at home a valuable lesson in conserving energy.
When it comes to beverage manufacturing and packaging practices, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are creating the machinery necessary to help beverage-makers conserve and reduce their energy output. For plastic bottle manufacturing, it’s not just the increasing adoption of recycled PET (rPET) plastic bottles, but also reducing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that it takes to power these machines, experts note.