When it comes to discarding waste, we are becoming more aware of the hazards and negative impacts of traditional means of disposal with each passing day-namely, plastic garbage bags. The best attributes of plastic – tensile strength and durability have also become its downfall. Quite simply, traditional plastic garbage bags, due to their long lifespan in landfills, have created more litter. As a result, plastic as we know it has needed to evolve, and it has in the form of Oxo-biodegradable Plastic. This minor alteration of traditional plastic has been developed to create a plastic product having the property of high tensile strength yet at the same time have the means to degrade to simple, safe organic materials when its time of utility is over.
Oxo-biodegradable technology produces a plastic product with equivalent performance characteristics as its conventional counterpart, is extremely cost competitive, and allows for programmable degradation. This results in a product that will totally and harmlessly disintegrate in multiple environments, commencing at a predetermined time such as from 6 months to 5 years. By comparison, traditional plastic garbage bags may remain in landfills for upwards of 50 years!
Reverte™ is an example of a product line of resin additives producing a controlled and safe oxo-biodegradable effect to standard polyethylene and polypropylene products. Reverte™ causes plastic to oxo-biodegrade until it becomes only CO2, H20 and biomass. It does not leave fragments of petro-polymers in the soil and the additional product cost is minimal, since only a small amount of additive is required (generally 1%) and existing manufacturing equipment and processes are used without modification. Furthermore, Oxo-biodegradable garbage bags provide the following advantages vs. Traditional:
-Programmable and controlled degradation
-Avoids the emission of methane
-Fully compatible with our recycled raw materials
-Degrades in any environment
-Requires no fertilizers, pesticides or water
-Won't hurt forestland and reduce biodiversity
As you know, at Corporate Chemicals and Equipment, we take great pride in being at the forefront of the Environmentally Preferable Products Movement, and we will continue to educate and encourage our clients to make responsible choices whenever they are available. We appreciate your openness to what we have to offer and we hope you will consider choosing Oxo-Biodegradable Garbage Bags for your business needs. To those of you who have already made the switch-thank you.
Want to arrange a trial of Oxo-biodegradable Plastic Bags for your facility? Please speak with a Corporate Chemicals Team Member right away to get started.
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An oxo-degradable needs heat, sunlight, or mechanical stress in order to break down. None of these are available in the required amounts needed in landfills. They are not landfill biodegradable certified- ASTM 5511. They are ASTM 6954-04. So to use a plastic that comes with an expiration date or one that will degrade if it gets too hot, is a waste.And most of all, if it doesn't break down in a landfill where most trash ends up, why use it?
Why use oxobiodegradable plastic? Because if the plastic waste gets into the open environment where it cannot realistically be collected for recycling or landfilling, it will automatically self-destruct, leaving no harmful residues. See www.biodeg.org
It is not desirable that anything should degrade in landfill unless the landfill has been designed to collect the gas, which most have not. "Compostable" plastic emits methane in landfill, which is a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than CO2
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