The process of biodegrading both beeswax and polyethylene involves breaking strong carbon bonds, the scientists wrote in their recent paper in Current Biology. Life always finds a way.

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But some did. “Certainly not the population at large,” says Zab Chugtai, as she walks through the Bradford mill where, in 1982, her family set up their packaging business Anzeck Plastics.

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Mr Longcroft said the biodegrading process begins “within hours” and the bottle will totally decompose in three weeks. The thin steel cap will break down in about a year.