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Bottles that compost in 27 days

October 1, 2018

Sunday's Innovate series looks at the bottle, designed by a Kiwi inventor, which looks like it’s plastic but is actually made of plants and breaks down in compost in less than a month rather than hundreds of years. (Source: Other)

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