A lightweight plastic bottle is still a plastic bottle

A lightweight plastic bottle is still a plastic bottle

Posted on November 28, 2011 by DrRossH in Plastic Waste News

 Nestlé is set to launch what it claims will be the UK’s lightest-weight water bottles after a £35m investment in a new bottling plant in Buxton.  Full StoryNew Water Bottle

A water bottle by any name is still a water bottle.  So Nestle have cut down the materials cost of their water bottles by 25%.   As usual for manufacturers however, they do not talk about the disposal side of their products.  This lightweight bottle will still take 100’s of years to break down.  There is little logic in making a bottle that a consumer uses for a few minutes and then tosses way to last many 100’s of years.   What are Nestle thinking of other than their own bottom line?  Imagine how much more customers would favour them with their patronage if Nestle really did address the disposal side  and came out with promotions of a  recycling scheme that had very high bottle recycling rates or a bottle that was biodegradable -in-a-landfill.   This is simply called sustainable, a word many corporations struggle with