When we hear the word Vegan, we almost automatically think of food, but have you ever come across Vegan Bottles?
The VeganBottle is a 100% biodegradable, recyclable bioplastic substitute for unsustainable single-use plastic bottles.
VeganBottle is produced by a French packaging firm called Lyspackaging. The project’s engineer and company president, Nicolas Moufflet, has spent years researching the technology required to manufacture a plastic bottle with every part, including the lid and the label, being biodegradable.
The creation of VeganBottle is the outcome of patented technologies in the area of processing sugar extraction from mixtures of plants and sugar cane.
The new formulation Veganbottle outperforms all other plant-based formulations in terms of barriers and mechanical qualities.
This product, which is compostable and biodegradable, was created in an effort to address major environmental issues caused by the pollution of petrochemical plastics.
A sweet carbon-neutral solution
The material is made from sugarcane, which, according to the company, doesn’t need a lot of water or encroach on farmland. Nicolas’s solution combines sugarcane bagasse, which is the fibre/pulp left over after extracting the sugar cane juice, with other plant-based products (the exact patented formula is secret) to create the material that is also suitable for holding other liquids, such as oil, beer, or even perfume.
The production of the bottle itself utilises less energy than traditional manufacturing, and sugar cane requires significantly less water than other crops.
The bottle’s whole construction, including the label and cap, is compostable and decomposes in a natural setting in around 90 days. VeganBottles are recyclable and may be repurposed in numerous sustainable packaging designs.
Lyspackaging participates in a reforestation programme in Haiti with Reforest’Action and its local partner Agrinotech Haitian association, which specialises in the deployment of agricultural techniques beneficial to the virtuous management of natural resources and the socio-economic development of populations. This is done to take into account the study of the carbon footprint of a VeganBottle bottle from its production until its end of life and to neutralise its carbon footprint. For each batch of 2,725 bottles produced, Lyspackaging plants a tree to offset the CO2 emissions associated with their business operations.
130 kg/co2 were produced from 2500 bottles of Veganbottle. A newly planted tree absorbs 35 to 150 kg of CO2 annually.
These containers are recyclable and free of endocrine disruptors. Premium and devoted food companies particularly value them, but they are also finding a lot of use in the hygiene and cosmetics sectors. Used Veganbottles and food biowaste can both be composted on the customer’s property.
A global problem
Disposable water bottles require fossil fuels throughout their entire life cycle, which increases global warming and pollution. Every year, 2.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere during the water bottling process and annually, 1.1 million marine animals perish as a result of the garbage from disposable water bottles that wash into the ocean. Every day, almost 60 million plastic bottles are disposed of in landfills and incinerators. These are just a few of the problems associated with plastic bottles, therefore solutions like Veganbottle go further than we can imagine.
In order to make this type of packaging available to the general public through a variety of products (food, diet, hygiene, cosmetics, home care etc), the company plans to manufacture Veganbottle on all continents and islands.
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