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| Title | Prototype Plastic Coca-Cola Bottle |
| Object Name | Prototype Plastic Coca-Cola Bottle |
| Manufactured By | DeBell and Richardson
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| Manufactured For | Coca-Cola |
| Description | Six empty prototype 32 oz. plastic bottles in "Easy-Goer" carrying carton. "No deposit, No refills." These prototypes were the first plastic disposable bottles for soft drinks, developed by the research and design firm DeBell and Richardson with Monsanto ANS. Plastic bottles, now mostly polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polypropylene have almost entirely replaced glass. Plastic bottles were first planned to be unbreakable and disposable, but now polypropylene from bottles is the most highly recycled plastic. |
| Dimensions | 32 oz. bottles |
| Date Manufactured | ca. 1973 |
| Material | Acrylonitrile-Styrene (ANS) |
| Manufacturing Process | Blow-molded |
| Number of Objects | 7 |
| Accession Number | 2004.106 |
| Donor | On deposit from National Plastics Center |
| Broad Subject | Packaging
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| Subjects | Bottles
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