[China Packaging Network News] How often do you buy bottled water once? How often do you finish after buying bottled water?
Water is a necessity in everybody’s life. Everyone can drink black tea, milk, and many green drinks. However, the intake of water is absolutely indispensable. So when you buy bottled water in a supermarket, you don’t have any guilt at all. After all, it’s sugar free, there’s no excess chemicals, and it’s pure, healthy and good.
But as you might have thought, when these essential waters were put into the bottles, how much carbon dioxide was produced in the process, how much energy was consumed, and what was most important was what these disposable bottles would do. Is it really recycled? Or is it thrown into an unknown corner and become an environmental hazard that will never disappear?
In fact, bottled water is definitely not a wicked commodity. After all, everyone may feel thirsty at any time. Even if special water bottles are brought, they may not find a place to hold water when they need to drink water. But for the outer layer of plastic material, it really is the subject of heated discussion, whether it can find a better material to replace it!
On this issue, the American designer Luigi Rausch came up with a design that uses "paper" as a water bottle, hoping to replace the existing bottled water and reduce the amount of "disposable plastic waste." But perhaps everybody will want to ask, does the breakfast shop, the supermarket, the beverage store inside often use the paper to make the cup to be the container? Why design a new paper bottle?
Actually, no matter what people often say, "drinking paper cups" or "paperboxes", although their bodies are made of paper, they are coated with polyethylene (PE) on the outside for water and oil resistance. ) Lamination. Also because this step allows us to cut the paper tableware, we must first go through the separation process when recycling, and different from the general paper recycling, so it can not be treated as paper waste. In addition, if buried directly, of course, because of this thin coating, it cannot be decomposed by microorganisms.
Designer Luigi Raussch decided to replace the function of the lamellar layer with natural “beeswax” so that the paper water bottle can achieve both waterproof effect and can be completely decomposed in the final burial stage, allowing everything to be attributed to dust. The “beeswax” material is not the latest technology, but the oldest known waterproof technology in the history of human processing. It is only processed through modern technology, so that beeswax can become a hypoallergenic and antibacterial material. The designer also stated that using water bottles made of beeswax can be certified by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and there is no doubt about health and safety.
As for the strength of the water bottle, the designer used the concept of corrugated paper. In addition to the smooth surface inside and outside, a layer of wavy core paper was sandwiched in the middle, so that the paper water bottle can also be put into the bag to avoid Pressing happens in a burst situation.
As for the leakage problems that often occur in paper cups, designers also hope to have continuous experiments to find out the best way of making.
At present, the paper water bottle is still in the conceptual stage. Although it is a pity, it is a good thing to think about it again! Everyone must have a lot of ideas and suggestions for this paper water bottle. If there is a chance for the designer to hear it, it may be possible to evolve into a better and better design.
