The paper bottle is gaining ground to plastic.

THE PACKAGING IS CALLED GREENBOTTLE AND IN THE UNITED KINGDOM IT HAS DISPLACED CONVENTIONAL PACKAGING.

The first paper bottle appeared in the United Kingdom in 2007 as a way to replace plastic containers used for milk. Its inventor was Martin Myerscough, who soon created the company GreenBottle, to circulate your creation.
Four years later, the packaging, very similar to the classic milk bottle sold in that country, being trialled in Asda supermarkets in the south of England, with great acceptance among consumers.

According to the manufacturing company: "he 80% of consumers who have tried GreenBottle prefer these containers to plastic and immediately understand their environmental benefits”.

Jump to wine.

Would we drink wine from a paper bottle? The inventors of the first paper milk bottle expand into a slightly more finicky market: the wine.

GreenBottle has gotten to work and has manufactured for this sector a bottle made of recycled paper that has a thin plastic coating on the inside..

The entire bottle is compostable and biodegradable; both the paper and the plastic coating can be recycled and reused. Compared to a traditional glass bottle, Due to its flexibility, it occupies less than 5% of space in the landfills.

The big question is whether wine lovers will accept this option, since not everyone is willing to changechange their habits and preferences in favor of behaviors that are less harmful to the environment.

However, Greenbottle officials point out that “there is great interest from some supermarkets and wine producers. So we could see paper wine bottles on the shelves next year.”.

The paper bottle is a biodegradable option, breaks down in a few weeks, pesa 55 grams (contra 500 grams of glass bottles), reduces the cost of transportation and also its carbon footprint is only the 10% of that caused by glass containers.

Paper versus Plastic.

Paper packaging can be recycled up to seven times, unlike a plastic bottle that can only go through the process once.

Once it becomes unusable or can no longer be recycled, paper decomposes in nature. The plastic, if it does not reach the waste treatment plant, becomes part of a garbage island.

In any case, the production cost of a paper bottle is the same as that of a plastic bottle..

The containers are manufactured in Türkiye and produced 50 per minute, although Martin Myerscough declared that he plans to open a plant in Cornwall and produce a new generation of packaging for detergents or shampoo.

According to the BBC, every day in the UK 15 Millions of plastic bottles end up in the trash, what in one year becomes 275.000 tons of plastic.

The average per household is 500 bottles per year, of which only 130 are recycled. Según GreenBottle, in Europe only 2,5% of plastic packaging is recycled. The rest, that does not go through treatment plants, takes up to five centuries to decompose.

Don't be surprised if we soon start seeing paper bottles on supermarket shelves..