Compostable Vitamin Bottles Have Arrived!

Understanding where a product comes from and where it will go is important in terms of sustainability.Unlike traditional plastics, Invert is made from renewable resources. The containers are made frompost-consumer recycled paper, which means no trees are harvested for production. This is a materialalready in circulation being repurposed for a new application. Furthermore, this feedstock is abundantworldwide and price-stable when compared to oil-based plastics. The lids are made from the bark ofthe cork tree. Again, no trees are harmed during this process. Rather, their bark is stripped andprocessed into products like the Invert lid while the tree regenerates its outer covering. Both thecontainer and lid can be readily recycled and/or biodegrade in a fraction of the time it takes plastic. Infact, there’s really no comparison between paper versus plastic when it comes to recycling rates orbiodegradability (see picture below). In 2018, according to the EPA, the recycling rates of the mostwidely used plastics (main polymers in packer bottles), Polyethylene (PET) and Polypropylene (PP),was approximately 30% or less. In the same year, corrugated boxes (the main feedstock of Invertcontainers) was recycled at a rate of 96.5%.