BIOTA spring water.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Blame It On The Altitude, water in bioplastic bottles - Brief Article

In 2004, nearly 100 billion plastic bottles found their way into landfills, where they'll degrade by about 3004. Telluride entrepreneur David Zutler aims to change that. As CEO and founder of BIOTA (which stands for "Blame It On The Altitude"), he's behind the first beverage maker to use a corn-based plastic developed by Dow Chemical and Cargill. Filled with water from an undisclosed mountain spring above the company's Ouray bottling plant, BIOTA's bottles degrade in as few as 80 days in a commercial composting operation...