Greenbottle: ‘An End to Plastic Bottles’?
Dear Springwise newsletter,
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! Haha!
Ok, enough with the shakespearean shenanaghans…
As some of our regulars likely know by now, I’ve come to TRULY appreciate my weekly Springwise e-Newsletter! For those of you unfamiliar with Springwise, it is really cool website featuring the latest innovations in entrepreneurship.
It is by no means dedicated solely to environmental products/services - but those that are featured do tend to be really interesting!
The product featured in this weeks Eco & Sustainability section, the ‘Greenbottle’, is certainly no exception!
From the Springwise article:
Designed and manufactured in Britain, Greenbottle is a biodegradable milk bottle that uses a smart two-part system to aid recycling. The bottles are composed of a cardboard outer manufactured from pulped, recycled cardboard, which is lined with an inner sleeve of biodegradable plastic made from corn starch. The plastic keeps the cardboard from becoming soggy, and the cardboard makes for easy transport, storage and pouring. Once the bottle is empty, the inner sleeve can be pulled out and will decompose in a landfill within six weeks. The cardboard outer can be put out for recycling with other paper or thrown in with kitchen and garden waste for home composting.
Very cool indeed! I would definitely love to start seeing bottles like that utilized here in Canada.
For some more info be sure to check out the Greenbottle site.
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Written by Bentley on May 30th, 2007 with
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