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More than 100 million tons of plastic waste contaminated soil, rivers, and oceans over the centuries. Pollution is made worse with solutions that can’t solve the problem. The solution to replace the plastic is as follows:
- Biobased Plastics: These plastics are made from biomass (corn, potato starch, wood pulp, or sugarcane). However, it does not mean that it is environmentally friendly because the processing system makes the biomass structure no longer natural. In fact, with a minimum biomass content of only 20%, a plastic can be said to be Biobased.
- Biodegradable Plastics: These plastics are designed to decompose into CO2, water, and biomass by microorganisms. However, many plastics in this group can only decompose under certain environmental conditions, for example, the temperature must be >50°C. This plastic also takes more than three years to decompose, much slower compared to the speed at which it is disposed of.
- Oxo(bio)degradable plastic: This plastic contains conventional petroleum derivatives that contain additives (pro-oxidants), so that it is disintegrated, which was previously misinterpreted as biodegradable, into microplastics.
- Industrially Compostable Plastics: These plastics are designed to decompose in a specific environment (moisture content, temperature, oxygen levels, and acidity are tightly controlled). This plastic is made in accordance with the European standard EN 13432, however these conditions do not represent actual disposal situations such as garbage disposal and oceans.
- Compostable Plastics at Home: These plastics decompose in household composting systems such as in gardens, but some of them can only decompose under laboratory conditions, such as stirring regularly, plus controlled water, temperature and humidity.
Therefore, we must start a sustainable lifestyle by using reusable packaging or completely compostable packaging, if single-use packaging is needed. And Biopac is the solution for single-use packaging because it is completely compostable.
Source: www.qqf.fr
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