On the counter rests a small display of tiny bottles, each wrapped carefully in brown shipping paper and labeled with a green-and-white sticker that reads “Underberg.” Inside is 0.7 ounces — 20 ...

It’s part of a push to make the bottles more recyclable. “Technically, green-colored plastic is recyclable,” says Alpa Sutaria, sustainability leader for the Coca-Cola Company North America ...

Turns out, green plastic isn't green in the environmental sense. A colored bottle contaminates the recycling stream and has to be separated out, increasing the chances it ends up in a landfill.

Coca-Cola is discontinuing the iconic green Sprite bottle to shift to clear plastic from August 1st in a bid to become more environmentally responsible.

Shrunken bottles of Tide and other liquid detergents could hit stores across the United States and Canada as early as next year should a test being conducted by Procter & Gamble Co. <PG.N>; go well.

Meanwhile, back in D.C., the green-labeled bottles began to sprout up throughout the metro area. “It really picked up steam in 2016, and since then we’ve seen exponential growth,” Wells said.