Ecover sweetens green packaging with sugar cane plastic

Detergent bottles to be manufactured from 100 per cent Plant-astic from April as part of efforts to reduce demand for fossil fuels Green cleaning brand Ecover is stepping up its commitment to renewable plastic packaging from next month when it will begin shipping bottles from 100 per cent sugar cane. Ecover announced last week that from the end of April, it will increase the plant-based content of all its packaging from 30 per cent to 100 per cent, using a renewable plastic called "Plant-astic" that is made from sugar cane. Sugarcane is harvested to produce sugar, which is then