That’s right, the biodegradable plastic bottle. This bottle will break down over time and it is made possible by the ENSO additive. Formed into a pellet like material, the product is added to plastic resin during the manufacturing process and can be used in almost any type of plastic bottle. Plastic with ENSO looks like any other container of that plastic type whether it’s PET, HDPE or PP. The best part is you are not compromising the quality of the container you use. In fact the ENSO additive will increase the barrier strength of the walls of the container helping to increase shelf life. Whether on a store shelf or in your cabinet at home, ENSO bottles with not break down due to light, heat or oxygen. The ENSO material waits until it is in a microbe rich environment, a landfill for instance, and only after it is attacked by this high concentration of microbes does the overall bottle begin to break down. The microbes go after the ENSO and then the rest of the plastic, beyond the ENSO, is able to be broken down because it is carbon based. Microbes are just not in tune with breaking down plastic, but with the ENSO as a part of the containers molecular structure, the microbes attack the ENSO and then move on to the rest of the carbon molecular chain leaving behind nothing but soil and bio-gases.

Now you may say to yourself “this sounds interesting, but where is the value when I can just recycle?” Even along the recycling chain there are imperfections. When a product made from post consumer resin (PCR) it is not as strong as the original plastic it was made from, its barriers are weaker, the material looks discolored. That is not the biggest issue though, think about what has just happened. Another bottle was made, yes it was from PCR, but still another bottle with another opportunity to be disposed of incorrectly has been created. With ENSO bottles if this happens at least we can feel more comfortable knowing that the material will break down and will do so in less than a thousand years. We at MJS, just as the fine people at ENSO bottles, do not believe this is an excuse to not recycle or a way to shift responsibility from people who use plastic containers. We simply believe that this is the next step in environmentally conscious packaging. 

(Source: ensobottles.com)