Plastic bags with biodegradable additives
New Encore™ biodegradable additive: Command has found that by adding a uique biodegradable additive to the bags, accelerated degradation of the material can be achieved starting in 9 months when exposed to environments where other organic materials biodegrade - with the additive, the plastic biodegrades into its natural elements of carbon dioxide, water and humus like natural elements necessary for plant life.
100% recyclable with post-consumer and post-industrial recycled material:
- Recycled material can be added to the mix with the biodegradable additive to further divert waste.
- Its unique property does not contaminate the recyling efforts unlike compostable (PLA) bags, so can be recycled to make new bags. During the heating process in the film's production, the active properties of the additive is destroyed to accept the material for recycling.
If litter is a concern, the biodegradable additive may be a better solution.
- For the conscious consumer, the bag with the biodegradable additive becomes a re-usable and recyclable bag.
- If littered and caught in the trees, roadside, or caught in the sewage drains, the enzymes will react to these environments and begin its biodegrading cycle.
- Once the enzymes have been activated, the bag will continue to biodegrade until it returns to carbon dioxide, water and humus like elements found in the soil without the need for heat, light, moisture, or mechanical stress to break them down (anaerobically and aerobically designed to biodegrade).
- Once the activation begins, they will continue to decompose into fragments even if buried in the landfill (it may take up to 5 years to fully biodegrade in these conditions, but the unvalidated claims of 1000 years or more to breakdown no longer applies).
Strong and reliable
- Shelf life and reliability will not be affected: Encore™ biodegradable bags will maintain the benefits of strength, leak resistance, grease resistance, and less storage requirements until they are placed in an environment that cause the material to breakdown, i.e. soil and bacteria.
- The look, feel, or functionality of the bag will not be affected by the additive, creating a truly an environmental bag solution.
Contact us today at 800.996.2247 for more information.
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