Recently, the fully biodegradable plastic beverage bottle launched by the British bottled water company Belu has been on the market. Environmentalists hope that this type of beverage bottle meeting the “green” environmental protection requirements can reverse the increasing trend of plastic waste.

According to reports, this beverage bottle, which uses corn as its raw material, can be completely degraded within 12 months and can be recycled for fertilizer production. Belu is a newly established company whose entire income is owned by the UK's charity organization Water Aid for the use of wells in developing countries. The company’s spokesperson, Maie Simonson, said recently that the reason why this new product was developed is to respond to the UN’s call for the business community to increase its investment in environmental protection. He believes that the successful development of this new beverage bottle will stimulate the market's demand for biodegradable material products and will be of great significance in protecting the global environment.

It is reported that the number of plastic products used in the United Kingdom is 20 times that of 50 years ago, and the use of plastic bottles each year amounts to 275,000 tons. For a long time, efforts to increase the recovery rate of waste products have always failed to catch up with the speed of production of waste products. The British government has been worried about this. The listing of such beverage bottles is expected to curb the spread of plastic waste to some extent. (Liu Guoxin)

Reprinted from: Chinese Packaging