Water bottle made of corn

The first batch of biodegradable mineral water bottles developed and produced by the British company Belu recently launched in the UK market, and a revolution in the plastic containers and packaging industry is quietly underway.

Bottles can be rapidly degraded

It is reported that this kind of bottle is made of plastic made of corn. Although the capacity reaches 0.5 liters, it can be fully degraded in just 12 weeks under the action of commercial fertilizer. Even with household fertilizers, the degradation process can be completed within 9 months to 1 year. And ordinary plastics buried in the soil can take hundreds or even thousands of years to decompose. The United Kingdom currently uses 20 times more plastic products than 50 years ago, and uses 275,000 tons of plastic bottles each year. The report said that the listing of such beverage bottles is expected to curb the situation of the proliferation of plastic waste in the United Kingdom to some extent.

Other companies are also working hard to develop biodegradable products. Marks & Spencer's sandwiches have been packaged in plastic film made from corn starch. The Coca-Cola Company is testing to reduce the weight of plastic bottles and said they are also studying the feasibility of using biodegradable bottles. Nestle is developing a new packaging for its milk chocolate products. The benefit is that it can be decomposed in water.

Why don't you drink tap water

Although new product launches are welcomed by some environmental groups, others believe that this limited level of improvement is tantamount to solving the deep-rooted problem of garbage decomposition.

Many environmentalists questioned the need to purchase mineral water for drinking. Recent data from the US Earth Policy Institute show that bottled water is 10,000 times more damaging to the environment than tap water. Because bottled water undergoes distillation, packaging, transportation, and other production processes, a large amount of greenhouse gas is generated in these production processes, which places a great burden on the global energy and the environment.

“Why don't you drink tap water?” said Anna Watson, a researcher at the Earth Policy Institute. “We should ask ourselves whether we really need those products and packaging.”


Source: Strait Metropolis Daily

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