AN animal feed company has devised a revolutionary biodegradable box which is attracting attention from overseas.

Owens Nutrition has developed the product as a way of keeping the countryside free from left-over containers, and has created a box which composts away without leaving a trace.

The family-run business, based in Great Smeaton, near Northallerton, in North Yorkshire, already manufactures feed buckets throughout the UK and overseas, and is now attracting attention from Scandinavia after initial product tests.

The company’s Sweetlick range offers plastic buckets, but managing director Andrew Owens believes that the option of the biodegradable box will rubber-stamp the range’s environmental quality and increase its popularity.

He said: “We do sell to a large market and although we know our customers are very responsible, there are occasions when buckets can be blown away across fields and sometimes not be picked up.

By providing a biodegradable alternative this problem is immediately resolved.

“They are already in production and being tested in some of our markets.

“They have been very well received in Scandinavia and I am certain that the National Parks value our environmentally responsible product.”