74% of recyclable water bottles end up clogging landfills, polluting the oceans, or littering our natural environments. Well, from what I’ve heard, one company is unveiling the world’s first biodegradable and recyclable water bottle in January to help address this issue.
Canada-based redleaf Water will be introducing these “Bio Bottles” in Canada and some stores in the Western U.S. at that time.
In normal environmental conditions, these bottles are supposed to biodegrade. And third-party research has reportedly shown this to be true and indicates that this bottle will set the standard for eco-friendly water bottles.
To prove the difference, redleaf will launch the “Disappearing Project” in January, and will “plant” its Bio Bottles as well as some competitors’ bottles in “BioGardens” in Canada, Arizona and Georgia. The project is designed to highlight how the Bio Bottles disappear in various environmental conditions. I’m curious to see this experiment carried out.
To put the waste of even recyclable water bottles into perspective, redleaf COO Dave Hillis says: “a 12×12 room is being filled from floor to ceiling every 74 seconds with empty water bottles.”
While many advocate not using disposable bottles at all, the hard reality is that these are in high demand these days and aren’t going away anytime soon. One big step towards a more environmentally-friendly future, however, would be a large-scale shift to biodegradable bottles such as these.