Comments on: Biodegradable Plastic – Is It Really?

By: Nickie

Nickie — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:34:21 +0000

Good article on what is actually biodegradable and what’s not. It states that some products sold as biodegrable aren’t really unless they are “composted” at an actual facility, not through regular discarding of trash. Helps our argument.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 04:58:05 +0000

I love the idea of adding organic compounds to the polymer chain to attract microbial activity. This makes sense for making biodegradable plastic. Very cool concept, go ensobottles.com! Hope you guys can get large investors to bite on this. Thank you for sharing

By: Max

Max — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:14:01 +0000

We agree…bioplastics or PLA isn’t the silver bullet for ending plastic pollution. It doesn’t biodegrade, doesn’t recycle along with other PET plastics and it has to be composted at a commercial composting site….try to find one of those.

However, plastic bottles are a growing problem in our landfills and oceans. We felt that something needed to be done……and now.

We felt that plastics made from crops that could be producing food, wasn’t the answer. Many reports indicate that in addition to causing our food process to rise, the equipment and chemicals used to produce food based bio-fuel may be increasing pollution.

We knew that there wasn’t going to be one “fix it all” answer and began to wonder if anything was ever going to be done. The problem was growing every day, more bottles were being manufactured and more bottles were accumulating in places where we didn’t need them.

We were wondering if “Earth Friendly Bottles” would ever be available?

That’s why we decided to do our part and started ENSO Bottles. We are partnering with other companies to offer a PET plastic bottle that will biodegrade, compost or recycle.

Our bottles can be produced in a clear or colored version, however, clear version isn’t quite as clear as current PET plastic bottles but then again that’s one way to identify our earth friendly bottle.

ENSO is trying to achieve sustainability with our plastic bottles. Our goal is to make bottles that won’t have the adverse impact on our environment and are made from non food bio-fuels.

We haven’t started making them from bio-fuel but that’s high on our agenda and hopefully will be something we can offer in the future.

But for now, we offer a plastic bottle that is earth friendly…it’s just one step but if we all take just one step toward improving our planet….we will make a difference.

Now all we need is for a lot of beverage companies to start using earth friendly plastic bottles.

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By: admin

admin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:25:13 +0000

Thanks for pointing me to that website. It’s definitely better defined now, I’m glad they came up with these guidelines.

By: MNR Water

MNR Water — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:03:57 +0000

I had the same revelation about a year ago when I contacted Natureworks to try and use PLA for our new Bottled Water venture. They basically explained that their PLA is NOT biodegradable but it is ” Industrially Compostable”. They pointed me to the FTC website for the factual definition they use – http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/grnrule/guides980427.htm#260.7.
Obviously we did not use PLA in our product mainly because it was NOT biodegradable as people think it is, but it does have its merits since its made from a renewable source. But because its not biodegradable, it usually ends up in landfills and takes just as long as regular plastic to go away. We ended up using 100% recycled plastic (rPET) for our project and are looking into biodegardable additives to make plastic REALLY biodegradable.