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Noida based start-up comes up with paper bottles as replacement for plastic

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<strong>We are surrounded by products – beverages, toothpaste, shampoo, house cleaners and more — all packaged in plastic containers which after use will take years and centuries to degrade adding to existing environment pollution.</strong></p>
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In an attempt to stem this, a Noida-based start-up Kagzi Bottles has come out with bottles that are made of 100 per cent compostable paper waste, claiming it to be the first-of-its-kind in India. Following research for more than two years, the company has been able to manufacture a container that uses plant-based material that creates a membrane over paper and makes it hydrophobic. Thus the bottles are durable and don’t allow any leakages.</p>
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Talking about these bottles, Kagzi Bottles’ founder Samiksha Ganeriwal, said that it is in the development stage and it will be produced on a commercial scale in the first quarter of 2022. She added: “Right now, the plant-based material can hold up for six months. We are finding out ways to make the membrane last longer.”</p>
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Ganeriwal sharing more details about this biodegradable product revealed: “Kagzi Bottles offers one-of-a-kind, patented packaging technology to replace single-use plastic. We are sourcing the waste paper from Himachal Pradesh and have tied up with Women Entrepreneurs Hub (WE Hub) in Hyderabad to create our final product.”</p>
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The organisation WE Hub, is Telangana Government’s initiative and the country’s first state-led start-up incubator that promotes and mentors women entrepreneurship.</p>
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Ganeriwal, who has studied electronics and business administration in 2016 started her packaging firm and in a very short duration realised the need for sustainable alternatives to plastic packages.</p>
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Last year in December after more than two years, Kagzi Bottles came up with the prototype of the bottle which contains no plastic and is 100 per cent compostable.</p>
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The company is still working on replacing the plastic caps for the bottles as their experiment with cork made the product expensive.</p>
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The compostable bottles can replace the plastic ones in the future.  “One person uses an average of seven plastic bottles per month only for toiletries. Kagzi bottles could be an alternative for all types of packaging not just toiletries but beverages, liquids and powders too,” observed Ganeriwal talking to thebetterindia.com.</p>
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<strong>Also read: <a href="https://www.indianarrative.com/latest-news/finally-an-online-store-only-for-sustainable-and-eco-friendly-products-96159.html">Finally an online store only for sustainable and eco friendly products</a></strong></p>

IN Bureau

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