Green Heroes: Choose Packaging

They created the world's first zero-plastic paper bottle to save the ocean.

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00:00By 2050, there will be more plastic in the oceans than fish.

00:13Despite this, plastic usage year on year is still increasing.

00:16And that's just because there aren't enough alternatives out there for the packaging we

00:20use.

00:21And that's where we come in.

00:22We've been developing the world's first zero-plastic paper bottle.

00:47The bottle here is made out of three parts.

00:49You've got the external paper casing.

00:51This is made out of recycled newspapers.

00:53Obviously, if you put any liquid in that, it would just leak straight away.

00:56So we just asked a very simple question.

00:58What is waterproof in nature?

01:00It turns out loads of stuff is.

01:02And so what we've done is blended about 26 different materials into our liner.

01:08The third part of the bottle is our capping system.

01:10This is made out of recycled tinplate, whether that's aluminium, stainless steel, or the

01:14recycled tinplate, depending on what we're bottling.

01:18To finish the bottle, we use recycled paper labels with soy-based eco-friendly inks.

01:35We're designing a bespoke machine that will be able to create thousands of these bottles

01:38every day that we're then going to lease to companies all over the world, big and small,

01:42to help them set up their own production of paper bottles.