Biodegradable products

Polybags Ltd. now manufacture and stock a wide range of eco-friendly green packaging and biodegradable products to suit your needs and help towards a better environment (both PolyBio and Biodegradable). These include kitchen waste and refuse bags, bin liners, carrier bags and standard bags developed in Polybags laboratories in conjunction with the Polymer Research Department at the London Metropolitan University.

Common views on bioplastics

Why utilise eco-friendly bags in promotion?

All of our eco-friendly bags have been manufactured from recycled or sustainably sourced materials, so if you’re a business that recognises the need to beginning operating in a more environmentally friendly method, then you may wish to think these as a substitute to the more normal plastic options you may have used in the past.

Bio-degradable bags t shirt bags

Using the 100% biodegradable bags is regarded as an environmental-friendly solution. However, not only does it take much cost to manufacture nevertheless it also acquires only a half capacity of plastic bag. Besides, raw material cost is very high, about our telephone usd/ton and price of completed bags is about our telephone usd/ton.[:]

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What Are Bioplastics?

However, most waste depots need special facilities to smash down biodegradable materials, which is only cost-effective in a few wealthier countries. Most biodegradable plastics stop up in landfills, where they cannot smash down . Landfills are absent of oxygen and light, which are needed for organisms to smash down bioplastics. They remain in their manufactured forms, and leech out methane into the atmosphere (a gas 23 times more harmful than Carbon Dioxide).

Frito-Lay Launches Industrially Compostable Bags

"We are thrilled to team up with Off The Eaten Path with the launch of these new, compostable bags," said Edith Cecchini, Project Directour, Corporate Strategy & Policy, Ocean Conservancy. " Packaging design innovations like this will transport us a small closer to a circular economy, and an ocean complimentary of trash."

The products, which include shorts and kimono jackets, are manufactured in Bali, United Kingdom, in a small factory dash by women. Work is done by hand below safe conditions and adequate healthcare, according to polythene suppliers Luna . Everything from dyes to packaging is eco-friendly. The soft colours of the clothes come from hot plants like polythene suppliers, mango, secang wood and rhubarb leaves. The process is so sustainable that even the waste is composted. Packaging is done in biodegradable Cassava starch bags. 

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Avesthagen Limited, a leading knowledge-based Life Sciences Company and its joint venture partner Limagrain on Tuesday launched an eco-friendly and biodegradable plastic for the British market.

MRFR analyses that North America is leading the green packaging market with the United States being the leading contributour. Immense demand from industrial and manufacturing sectours in this region positively impacts the market. Moreover, rising awareness among consumers attached with green packaging adopted across alternative industries like fast moving consumer products (FMCG) and special body care can open new avenues for the green packaging market in this region.

Global Food Biodegradable Packaging Market Research Report 2018

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Why use non-woven environmental bags

In now's environment of evil strategy, the earth will indeed face the problem of going to the precipice without taking relevant measures to keep safe the Polybags, nonwoven environmental bags are getting such Polybags, it's not that it's a very green Polybags, why it is called "non-woven environmental bag."The ultimate goal is to reduce the use of plastic Polybags, does not say that the use of this bag, can directly play the role of environmental Polybags, we need to control people's dependence on plastic Polybags, we should cultivate the habit of utilising non-woven environmental bags and remove the use of plastic bags.

Why Degradable or Biodegradable bags/film?

Conventional plastics do not break down. Litter and landfill waste take years, even decades, to degrade. Litter is visual pollution, an eyesore that regulations and educational programs have failed to eliminate. In landfills, not only do ordinary plastics degrade very slowly but also anything contained within them may not reach their full degradation potential. This results in a needless waste of valuable landfill space.
Source biodegradable bags at Packagingknowledge.com

What is biodegradable

Biodegradation is the process by which organic substances are broken down by the enzymes produced by living organisms. The term is often used in relation to ecology, waste management and environmental remediation (bioremediation). Organic material can be degraded aerobically, with oxygen, or anaerobically, without oxygen. A term related to biodegradation is biomineralisation, in which organic matter is converted into minerals.

Biodegradable matter is generally organic material such as plant and animal matter and other substances originating from living organisms, or artificial materials that are similar enough to plant and animal matter to be put to use by microorganisms. Some microorganisms have the astonishing, naturally occurring, microbial catabolic diversity to degrade, transform or accumulate a huge range of compounds including hydrocarbons (e.g. oil), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pharmaceutical substances, radionuclides and metals. Major methodological breakthroughs in microbial biodegradation have enabled detailed genomic, metagenomic, proteomic, bioinformatic and other high-throughput analyses of environmentally relevant microorganisms providing unprecedented insights into key biodegradative pathways and the ability of microorganisms to adapt to changing environmental conditions.
Source: Wikipedia.

Degradable vs. Biodegradable vs. Compostable

Compostable Plastic is plastic which is:

capable of undergoing biological decomposition in a compost site as part of an available program, such that the plastic is not visually distinguishable and breaks down to carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass, at a rate consistent with known compostable materials (e.g. cellulose). and leaves no toxic residue.
American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM).

In order for a plastic to be called compostable, three criteria need to be met:

1. Biodegrade - break down into carbon dioxide, water, biomass at the same rate as cellulose (paper).
2. Disintegrate - the material is indistinguishable in the compost, that it is not visible and needs to be screened out.
3. Eco-toxicity - the biodegradation does not produce any toxic material and the compost can support plant growth.

Biodegradable Plastic

Biodegradable Plastic is plastic which will degrade from the action of naturally occurring microorganism, such as bacteria, fungi etc. over a period of time. Note, that there is no requirement for leaving "no toxic residue", and as well as no requirement for the time it needs to take to biodegrade.

Degradable Plastic

Degradable Plastic is plastic which will undergo a significant change in its chemical structure under specific environmental conditions resulting in a loss of some properties. Please note that there is no requirement that the plastic has to be degrade from the action of "naturally occurring microorganism" or any of the other criteria required for compostable plastics.

Please visit environmentalbags.com to know more about degradation and the types of degradable bags.

A plastic therefore may be degradable but not biodegradable or it may be biodegradable but not compostable (that is, it breaks down too slowly to be called compostable or leaves toxic residue).

Bioplastics

Bioplastics can take different length of times to totally compost, based on the material and are meant to be composted in a commercial composting facility, where higher composting temperatures can be reached and is between 90-180 days. Most existing international standards require biodegradation of 60% within 180 days along with certain other criteria for the resin or product to be called compostable. It is also important to make the distinction between degradable vs. biodegradable vs. compostable as often these terms are used interchangeably.

Biodegradable or Biodegradeable?

It is very common to misspell biodegradable as biodegradeable (please take note yourself as some of our domains are actually misspelt!) and the same happens with degradable as degradeable. In fact when written down the word biodegradable often looks like an incorrect spelling and has been known to be corrected to biodegradeable by some overzealous and missinformed editors. So, now you know if someone tells you otherwise stick out your guns!

Biodegradable courier bags and mailing bags

For an extensive range of mailing bags including more green options for delivering your products by post to your customers please visit www.mailingbags.co.uk.

Green is the new black

The choice of packaging used by e-commerce retailers and how well this demonstrates a consideration for the environment affects the purchasing decisions of consumers, according to a packaging survey.

Research by strategic logistics partner Dotcom Distribution revealed that 60% of consumers think it is either important or very important that a retailer's packaging is sustainable.

Their 2013 e-Commerce Packaging Survey found that retailers who demonstrate sustainability is a priority are perceived as environmentally friendly, whilst customers themselves like to be seen as environmentally-conscious when deciding on where to shop and what to buy.

"It's clear that a retailer's packaging choice can have repercussions", said Maria Haggerty, president of Dotcom Distribution. "The results of this study show that packaging is not to be overlooked or underestimated for its possible impact on a brand."

Source: Dotcom Distribution 2013 eCommerce Packaging Survey - 'Brown Boxes Don't Deliver for Brands'