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

It is now necessary that all food waste is separated and campers will be provided with starch bags to put all food preparations and leftovers in. This waste will not contaminate our normal waste and will be used in a local anaerobic digester to generate electricity.

Biodegradable Plastic Bags: What You Need to Know

Biodegradable plastic is labeled 7 while most other recyclable plastics are a 1 or a 2. If bioplastic is mixed in with these, it will contaminate the all batch. You don't need to be an environmental scientist to know that's not a superb outcome.

Global Flexible Green Packaging Market Insights, Forecast to 2025

The study objectives are: To analyse and research the global Flexible Green Packaging capacity, production, value, consumption, status and forecast; To focus on the key Flexible Green Packaging manufacturers and study the capacity, production, value, market share and development plans in next few years. To focuses on the global key manufacturers, to define, portray and analyse the market competition landscape, SWOT analysis. To define, portray and forecast the market by type, application and region. To analyse the global and key regions market potential and advantage, opportunity and challenge, restraints and risks. To identify significant trends and factours driving or inhibiting the market growth. To analyse the opportunities in the market for stakeholders by identifying the high growth segments. To strategically analyse each submarket about individual growth trend and their contribution to the market. To analyse competitive developments like expansions, agreements, new product launches, and acquisitions in the market. To strategically profile the key players and comprehensively analyse their growth strategies.

These insights are based on a report on Biodegradable Packaging Material Market by Polybags

A most of regulatory bodies and international environmental organizations have proposed a ban on single-use packaging materials to mitigate the dangerous effects of non-degradable solid waste on the environment. Increasing environmental awareness and consumer inclination towards making sustainable purchases is providing a leading boost to the growth of the biodegradable packaging market.

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Importance of eco-friendly bags

Today, people are very much aware of the eco-friendly bags nevertheless still few people are there who still not making use of the eco friendly bags which doesn’t hurt our environment.

If it in reality "cooks" like the rest are mentioning then I bet it would. I use biodegradable bags and we put them in a "nasty stuff compost bin". I only turned it for the first time last week after a few months and a lot of the bags were showing signs of decay already. It would probably not smash down as fast as the poop. But the rest mention that when the bin is full you only pull it out (there's no bottom) and cover the hole, which would create more contact with soil and assist it smash down faster.

These substitute bags aren't meant to stop up as litter in the street or in the normal environment — ideally, they would all be treated only as manufacturers expect. Biodegradable bags would be landfilled or, in a few cases, recycled into new plastics — at least in theory.

Scientists Explore Environmental Advantages of Horticultural Bioplastics

The view that bioplastics will reduce the amount of waste in the oceans may not even come true. Just because plastics are manufactured from plants does not automatically make them easily degradable in marine environments, Escobar emphasises. "Bio-PE and Bio-PET are for instance not biodegradable, same as their petroleum-based counterparts." Bioplastics and biomaterials have nevertheless one transparent advantage: They assist to reduce the fossil fuel dependency of highly industrialised regions. The scientists conclude that if governments certainly want to keep safe the environment, they should rather pursue a alternative strategy: It makes more sense to use plastic sparingly and to ensure that it is in reality recycled.

Compostable Bags Market Trends, Overview & Forecast to our telephone

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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'