Plant raw material PET bottles are expected to enter the market in 2021.

Recently, Japan Suntory Group and a US company jointly developed 100% PET bottles using plant raw materials, and plans to use them in 2021.

Japan's Suntory Group has the technology to process wood chips into p-xylene, which is one of the raw materials for PET bottles. The technology was validated in equipment built in Texas, USA.

According to Japan's Suntory Group, there is currently no PET bottle that uses 100% of plant raw materials in the world. The PET bottle will be used as a mineral water container sold in Japan.

Since the raw materials of the PET bottles are all derived from plants, the carbon dioxide emissions per PET bottle will be reduced to half of the 100% of the plastic bottles produced by petroleum raw materials.