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

Business Plan for eco-friendly bags

The types of eco-friendly bags generally manufactured of the following fibres

Oxo-degradable bags can be customised and application specific: Stabilizers are intro- duced along with the additive to control the rate at which the degradation process starts. Using this technology we are able to program the shelf life of our products to suit the requirements of its specific application. Only ADDIFLEX can guarantee this advantage.

Butcher introduces biodegradable bags for clients

He said: There's growing interest in biodegradable bags, which don't stay in landfill for up to 2,000 years like plastic does.

Bioplastics Market

SECTION 4 BIOPLASTICS MARKET, BY TYPE

Paper Compostable Bags

paper compostable bags compostable paper bags for food waste paper compost bags uk .

At Lamington we share your concerns about the effect on the environment with single-use plastic bags. Unfortunately we can not send out orders in paperas we need to retain your purchase safe in all weather conditions. Lamington are excited to announce they are phasing out their plastic courier bags and movingto 100% decompostable corn starch bags. Simply remove the sticky address label and pop your courier bag into your compost bin. We expect to be utilising only decompostable bags bySeptember 2018.

If biodegradable plastic bags aren't in reality breaking down in the environment, what should people transport out?

What is green packaging?

Not meeting this consumer demand for eco-friendly packaging could seriously hurt the perception of your business, potentially causing a drop in number of sales. In short, you can?t afford to be sitting on the fence, it?s time to introduce green packaging into your operation.

What is biodegradable packaging?

Below is a list of the most popular biodegradable packaging materials currently on offer in the market. You may select from any of these depending on your product packaging requirements:

Bags » Environmental Bags

Environmentally bags and promotional reusable bags are big for the environment and an optimal marketing tool! Our spectrum of promotional eco bags are the most popular promotional giveaway on the market! You can not proceed gross with promotional manufacture bags with your emblem on them! We can print your corporate emblem onto any of our environmental bags and eco bags! Our spectrum of eco friendly promo items is big! Choose from green non woven bags that are manufactured of recycled PET bottles, or divine, delicate bamboo bags that have a proper environmental feel about them! Or if you are after a rustic environmental bag select our fantastic jute bags, that are probably the most unique of the Environmentally Friendly Bags on the market! We have a spectrum of environmental bags and reusable bags on offer from low quantities like calico bags, normal cotton bags, printed cotton bags and promotional calico bags or branded non woven bags, as well as our spectrum of coloured promo cotton bags. Environmentally friendly promotional items are only perfect for promoting on products. Be Future Ready!

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'