"CocaCola" news and stories

When Andrew Kim, 18, a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, got an assignment to create an eco-friendly product he thought about Coke bottles. At first Kim considered the idea of reusing the bottle in some way but then struck on the concept of redesigning the bottle instead. "I thought about fixing the problem instead of using the problem," he explained to Slashfood. "We have all these bottles and they are not being recycled."

Kim's first innovation was to make the bottles rectangular to facilitate packing and shipping: "All shipping uses rectangular forms so I wanted to use that space to maximum capability," he explained. Kim also suggested that the bottles be nested in shipping and in turn be collapsible when empty so more of them can be sent to be recycled.

Kim, who doesn't drink Coke, thought of redesigning the classic contoured soda bottle because, "everyone else drinks Coke."

Oh and in case you were wondering Kim got a perfect score of 100 for his assignment.

Dad's Root Beer Crate. Photo: eBay.

Several weeks ago, I covered my co-worker's wedding in Louisville, Ky., and raved about how she doubled her wedding cakes as centerpieces. It got me thinking: Everyone attending our wedding knows that both Jon and I are serious foodies. I want to incorporate food into our decor too, but I don't want to overdo it (and believe me, that wouldn't be hard!).

With the cost of food eternally increasing, I need to come up with other ways to incorporate our passion into our cocktail hour and reception. With the help of eBay and Amazon, I think I'll be able to pull it off. I have a vision of filling up old crates with bright, white hydrangeas and placing them by the bars.

Taking that idea one step further, I started a search on eBay for wine crates and stumbled across an antique Dad's Root Beer crate, which just so happens to be one of Jon and my father's favorite root beers. Five days of bidding and this puppy was mine!

Check out more of my finds after the jump!

Consumers have been told for years how bad soda is for the body. It doesn't matter if the drink is regular or diet. Even if we're not sure exactly what is so bad, it's supposedly common knowledge that it is.

I know that I shouldn't, but I do drink a little coke every day. I'm not a coffee person, so I have a cup of Coca Cola in the morning. So I really did not want to know precisely what Coke does to the body. I found an article over at Healthbolt that breaks down, step by step, what happens when you drink Coke. It is not a pretty picture. The article claims you're hit with a sugar rush, it leaches calcium and other vitamins from your body and flushes them out with a diuretic effect.**

Didn't Coca Cola come out with a vitamin-added beverage? What happens to those vitamins? I drink way more water than anything else, but I don't want to give up my morning Coke. So, anything in moderation?


**I have been informed that this article is mostly sensationalized and partly false. Please, only take the information with a grain of salt.

Everyone nowadays is concerned about the environment. Big business is especially concerned with its image. It wants the valuable consumers that a good green image can bring.

Coca Cola is no different, of course. The soft drink giant has already taken a number of steps to green-ify its image. The beverage maker has already pledged to recycle all of its plastic packaging in the US. Now it's time to tackle aluminum. Coca Cola has now decided that it will recycle 100% of the aluminum cans produced in the US.

To coordinate everything, the drink maker even created a whole division dedicated to collecting and recycling all of its waste packaging. Coca Cola Recycling just built a plant in South Carolina. The division says that the aluminum recycling initiative will use 95% less energy and reduce carbon emissions by 95% than creating new cans.

So here you go; another big company working to beef up its green image. I think it's great. A company as big as Coca Cola recycling all of its waste can make a huge impact on what goes in the landfills. It also makes a lot of business sense. So this kind of thing is a win-win for everyone.

The highest court in India has demanded that Coca-Cola and Pepsi reveal the chemical composition and ingredients of their products after a study that was released on Wednesday showed that the soft drinks contain high levels of insecticides.

The two presiding justices have given both Coca Cola and Pepsi just four weeks to submit a reply, otherwise the court will suspend sales in India. However, Shreyas Patel, a lawyer at Fox Mandal Little realizes that "no one is going to give away a 120-year-old secret, especially in a country like India. Someone would go and make it themselves."

Obviously, he never met these ladies, who already have.