Go Green Radio

Plastic beverage containers are a problem. According to the most recent report available from the Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers, of the 9,131 million pounds of plastic bottles generated in 2012, less than 1/3 were recovered for recycling. The remainder ends up in a landfill where it could take hundreds of years to break down, or as litter where it flows into stormwater drains and ultimately into the ocean. In either instance, the energy and petroleum used to manufacture and ship the plastic beverage containers is lost. A new company, called Paper Water Bottle, seeks to upend that wasteful model. They have created an alternative beverage container made from Non-GMO verified fiber products that are BPI certified to be compostable. Today we’ll talk with the company’s co-founder and president, Dan Doster.