Primo Water

Date: June 19, 2008 | Category: Food & Drink

With the plastic floating around the Pacific Gyre shockingly expanding to greater than the size of Texas, it is time to starve our desire for quick plastic solutions. Though reusable is the best option, sometimes we all forget our containers (even the ones who claim perfection, which we certainly do not!). Primo – unlike other water bottles made from non-renewable crude oil - is crafted from plants. Ingeo natural plastic, the material used in Primo bottles, is made completely from annually renewable resources. If every traditional plastic bottle were made with Ingeo, Primo claims that we would save about one billion gallons of gas per year. They also say that their bottles require 65 percent less fossil resources than a traditional plastic bottle, and Ingeo gives off 80 to 90 percent less greenhouse gases. So we have determined that Primo is less bad. Unfortunately they are not biodegradable, which won’t help much with the floating island of plastic waste. If you would like to learn more, check out this video on how the bottles are created and remember that disposables in general are not a sustainable solution.

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