UK supermarkets can now offer the first corn-based biodegradable bottle to its customers. As part of its fund raising activities with environmentalism, the UK-based mineral water company, Belu Natural Mineral Water has launched this unique container bottle .

The bottles are made of a bio-plastic that is compostable and made of a renewable resource --corn!

The new material results from a Cargill unit called NatureWorks which makes corn-derived plastic.

The Belu bottle will help the UK reduce its soaring landfills sites historically built partly from non-biodegradable plastic heaps as it takes just 12 weeks to compost the bottles back to the earth in a commercial composting facility.

According to some companies, this market will grow by about 20 per cent a year.