In true British fashion, we're now inexplicably whinging that, actually, it's a little too hot and we wouldn't mind it a few degrees cooler (please). Naturally, we're drinking loads of plastic bottled water and - ouch - chucking the empties in the bin to sit in landfill for aeons. Now imagine if all those bottles were made out of corn, would compost in 12 weeks and the company behind it sourced water locally in Shropshire and gave a portion of its profits to Indian and African water projects? Well - guess what - that's exactly what happens when you buy one of the Belu's brilliant new bottles of water.
The water tastes like, um, water: certainly as good as the Buxtons and Evians of this world, though personally I can only tell the difference if the water's a really heavy mineralised Welsh one.
To compost the bottles all you need to do is remove the cap - it's the only bit that's still plastic - and throw it in your compost bin. Belu's advice is to get it commercially composted (find out more here) in which case it'll break down entirely within twelve weeks.
Basically, it's all good. The only downside I can think of is that if we all switch to corn bottles, there'll be no more material to make super sculptures like Lepage and Wong's 'Waterr' one at HauteGREEN.
Belu are great! Not trying to be picky...but they actually give ALL (100%) of their profits to fund water projects...
Plastic is forever. It's everywhere as a fine dust. We're all eating it. : (
Rubbish. ...and scary.
Posted by: lisa stockton | November 15, 2007 at 11:45 AM