There is a new invention for milk bottles. The milk bottle made of paper looks like the plastic ones and is wield the same way as the plastic one but there is huge difference, it is made of papier-mâché. For a plastic milk bottle it takes 500 years to decompose and can only be recycled once, the paper bottle can be turned into compost within a matter of several weeks. The idea comes from Martin Myerscough, he thinks he has the solution for the future. He already sold his invention to shops around Suffolk and the reactions were positive. The bottle has been trailled at Asda stores in East Anglia and a national roll-out across the supermarket chain will start this week, beginning in Cornwall. Myercough is thinking to sell his Greenbottle to other industries, such as detergent and shampoo manufacturers. There have already been other alternatives if it comes to plastic bottles but the supermarkets had withdrawn them. “The price is the same as a plastic bottle”. Myerscough said. “Our target is to be competitive with plastic bottles.”
My reaction:
It is good that they care for the future and try to minimize the impact on next generations. Of course we cannot at once stop polluting the earth but bit by bit we can live a healthier life and try to gain back nature. These plastic milk bottles always have a weird plastic taste so I wonder if those Greenbottles have a paper taste. It is also a good thing to keep the price the same as the plastic bottles because we pay a lot more for ‘greener’ products than our regular products.
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