EcoChoice 32 Ounce (Quart) Biodegradable Round Bottles - The Green Bot

If you recycle plastics or dispose of them in a landfill, EcoChoice® has your best environmental intentions covered. EcoChoice® products will biodegrade* when disposed of in a municipal landfill and will not affect a product's recycling characteristics. EcoChoice® Products will biodegrade in a landfill, residential composting, commercial composting, or when buried in the ground, tilled into the soil, etc. In short, when it is time to dispose of an EcoChoice® product, your options to do something good for the environment are almost limitless.And with the cost being the same as non-biodegradable items of the same type, why wouldn't you do this? *Biodegradation as per ASTM D5511-02 standard test determining anaerobic biodegradation of plastic materials under hi-solids anaerobic conditions independently conducted and analyzed by an independent Research Lab. 30 million tons of plastic waste is generated in the USA each year Only 7.1% of all plastic waste generated was recycled in 2008. Over 90% of all plastic waste generated was discarded ...approximately 28 million tons of plastic waste was not recycled.