Westchester County Business Journal Bottler wants its product to disappear literally
Bottler wants its product to disappear literally
Americans have a love affair with bottled water, or so says Nancy Dellamonte, an earth science teacher at Kennedy Catholic High School in Somers.
“Presently there are 50 billion bottles of water sold in the U.S. each year,” said the North Salem resident. “About 38 billion of those miss the recycle stream and end up in a landfill.”
Moved by her professional passion for what makes the Earth go round, Dellamonte teamed up with friends Bob and Carolyn Koss of Boulder, Colo., who founded company Ciao Water two years ago.
Dellamonte noted the biodegradable bottles cut the length of deterioration drastically and that no toxins leach into groundwater.
The Ciao bottles are traditional PET-one plastic but are injected with the enzyme reverte that breaks down the 250,000-long hydrocarbon plastic molecule into 4,000 to 10,000 hydrocarbon units more easily broken down by micro flora, she said.
“Conventional PET plastic can sit in a landfill for up to 5,000 years, but this will start to break apart in 18 to 24 months and be totally gone in about five years,” Dellamonte said.
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