Water: A common chemical substance that is essential to all known forms of life. We all know the importance of it, I need not explain more.
I still remember 10 years ago people used to talk “who will buy water? When we get it for such a cheap price”, but life has changed today. Day in & out we buy water without a second thought. Quality is what we look at. The supposed to be corporation clean tap water is made to run through all kinds of Water purifiers before drinking at homes. But the point I am driving today is not about water it the way it is sold.
Packaged water in India is sold in Plastic bottles in all kinds of sizes starting from ½ liter, 1 liter & 2 liters.
Municipal solid waste in India contains 1-4 per cent by weight of plastic waste. India’s rate of recycling of plastic waste is the highest (60%) in the world as compared to other countries (China 10%, Europe 7%, Japan 12%, South Africa 16% and USA 10%) but is a much unorganized sector.
Today I want to talk about this wonderful organization called "Belu Water". This is a UK company providing mineral water in the UK. They are first company to provide UK's first COMPOSTABLE bottle made of corn and their profits go to clean Water projects in UK, Mali & India right now. They plan to take up projects similar to this around the world. They are also a Penguin Approved - They are anti-Global Warming.
To talk about their Bio-bottles - they are made from corn but could equally well be made from potatoes, rice, beetroot, bio-mass or pretty much any carbohydrate or sugar. The corn goes through a fermentation and distillation process similar to making corn whiskey and is reduced to a monomer called lactic acid (which you can also find in ice cream and pickles). This lactic acid is then spun, linked into polymer chains and molded into bottles.
Even though their bottle is compostable their cap is not. They request to reuse the same.
Read more about them on http://www.belu.org/
I wait for their launch in India & hope it makes a difference.
As Ed Rendell quotes “Bottled water was, at best, a temporary solution for this community,” but we have made it now a permanent solution.
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