Comments on: World Centric Launches World’s First Compostable Toothbrush! http://inhabitat.com/world-centric-launches-worlds-first-compostable-toothbrush/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Tue, 21 May 2013 14:17:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Dawd http://inhabitat.com/world-centric-launches-worlds-first-compostable-toothbrush/comment-page-1/#comment-391782 Dawd Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:51:44 +0000 http://inhabitat.com/?p=420282#comment-391782 I think this is a great alternative but just to provide extra information. The plastic is made of GM crops (Corn if I'm not mistaking) so to compost your garden with it is to mix nature with GM stuff. The material might also not be as degradable as they claim. The Guardian covered this back in 2008 when it had a different name. Ingeo seems like re-branding to me. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/26/waste.pollution I think this is a great alternative but just to provide extra information.

The plastic is made of GM crops (Corn if I’m not mistaking) so to compost your garden with it is to mix nature with GM stuff.

The material might also not be as degradable as they claim. The Guardian covered this back in 2008 when it had a different name. Ingeo seems like re-branding to me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/26/waste.pollution

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