Can you find the 26 plastic bottles in this picture?

Put away the magnifying glass

This woman’s fleece jacket is made from 25 recycled plastic soda and water bottles–the same kind that we use in bottling Pepsi-Cola, Aquafina, Lipton Green Tea and other beverages.

In fact, all of PBG’s cans and bottles are recyclable, making them excellent candidates for transfor-mations–not only for clothing but also carpets, computer keyboards, auto parts and new bottles…

…including many of the new bottles we use, which contain 10 percent recycled plastic.

With our aluminum soda cans, the recycled content jumps to 41 percent. That’s especially important, because making cans from recycled aluminum requires just five percent of the energy needed to make them from aluminum ore.

Though plastic bottles and aluminum cans make up less than two percent of the total U.S. municipal waste stream, recycling them helps reduce oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions.

That’s an idea we can all warm up to.