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About Natur-Tec
Natur-Tec® business unit engineers and manufactures biobased and compostable plastics intended to replace conventional, petroleum-based plastics.
Natur-Tec® has a broad bioplastics portfolio which spans flexible film, foam, rigid injection molded materials and engineered plastics. These
applications allow for the production of 100% certified biodegradable and compostable finished products, such as bags, foodservice products, and
product packaging.
Natur-Tec® products are renewable resource-based and do not contain conventional plastic materials. Natur-Tec® products provide sustainable
alternatives to conventional plastics and enable industry and consumers to move closer to a carbon neutral footprint.
Natur-Tec® has a broad bioplastics portfolio which spans flexible film, foam, rigid injection molded materials and engineered plastics. These
applications allow for the production of 100% certified biodegradable and compostable finished products, such as bags, foodservice products, and
product packaging.
Natur-Tec® products are renewable resource-based and do not contain conventional plastic materials. Natur-Tec® products provide sustainable
alternatives to conventional plastics and enable industry and consumers to move closer to a carbon neutral footprint.
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What does Compostable mean?
What does Biodegradable mean?
For Best Results:
Natur-Tec® bags are intended to be composted in a professionally managed municipal or
commercial facility operated in accordance with best composting management practices.
What does Biodegradable mean?
For Best Results:
Natur-Tec® bags are intended to be composted in a professionally managed municipal or
commercial facility operated in accordance with best composting management practices.
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| Mexico City Bans Plastic Shopping Bags - Stores To Use Compostable Shopping Bags NY Times, Green Incorporated Section |
The Case For Using Compostable Shopping Bags
1. Sustainability
The most important aspect to being a Green Consumer is to minimize the waste and toxicity associated with your consumption and disposal of trash.
Please use products whose packaging is made from Earth-friendly, sustainable materials. By sustainable, we mean that this disposable packaging is
made from all natural, non-toxic materials; and that it is made, used, and disposed of in such a way that it could continue to be made, used, and
disposed of again and again indefinitely.
Sustainable products have two basic criteria:
Please use products whose packaging is made from Earth-friendly, sustainable materials. By sustainable, we mean that this disposable packaging is
made from all natural, non-toxic materials; and that it is made, used, and disposed of in such a way that it could continue to be made, used, and
disposed of again and again indefinitely.
Sustainable products have two basic criteria:
- A product must be made from natural resources utilized in such a way that allows those resources to continue to be available from generation to
generation. - The waste from a product must stay within the manufacturing loop or assimilate into the natural ecosystem and not build up or cause pollution.
2. Non-toxic and Compostable
Natur-Tec shopping bags are manufactured using biodegradable polymers, natural polymers, organic and inorganic materials. They are certified as
100% biodegradable and compostable:
These shopping bags do NOT contain any polyethylene or other conventional plastics. When the bags decompose, they transform into non-toxic, allnatural compost that can provide nutrients to any soil.
100% biodegradable and compostable:
 | ASTM D6400 Specifications for Compostable Plastics (U.S.) | |
| ASTM D6866 for Determining Biobased Content (U.S.) |
These shopping bags do NOT contain any polyethylene or other conventional plastics. When the bags decompose, they transform into non-toxic, all
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3. Plastic Bags Continue To Pollute The Environment
The Food Marketing Institute's September 2008 report cites a Wall Street Journal estimate that 100 billion bags are used in the U.S. each year and 500
to 1 trillion worldwide.
While actual usage may be less, Wikipedia suggests that only 7% of these bags are recycled. Further, it is estimated that double this amount is thrown
into the open environment as litter: cartwheeling down city streets, aloft in trees, billowing from fences like flags, clogging storm drains, washing into
rivers and bays and even end up in the ocean, washed out to sea.
Bits of plastic bags have been found in the nests of albatrosses in the remote Midway Islands. Floating bags can look all too much like tasty jellyfish to
hungry marine critters. According to the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation, more than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea
turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic. The conservation group estimates that 50 percent of all marine litter is some form of
plastic.
There are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. In the Northern
Pacific Gyre, a great vortex of ocean currents, there's now a swirling mass of plastic trash about 1,000 miles off the coast of California, which spans an
area that's twice the size of Texas, including fragments of plastic bags.
There's six times as much plastic as biomass, including plankton and jellyfish, in the gyre. "It's an endless stream of incessant plastic particles
everywhere you look," says Dr. Marcus Eriksen, director of education and research for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which studies plastics
in the marine environment. "Fifty or 60 years ago, there was no plastic out there."
to 1 trillion worldwide.
While actual usage may be less, Wikipedia suggests that only 7% of these bags are recycled. Further, it is estimated that double this amount is thrown
into the open environment as litter: cartwheeling down city streets, aloft in trees, billowing from fences like flags, clogging storm drains, washing into
rivers and bays and even end up in the ocean, washed out to sea.
Bits of plastic bags have been found in the nests of albatrosses in the remote Midway Islands. Floating bags can look all too much like tasty jellyfish to
hungry marine critters. According to the Blue Ocean Society for Marine Conservation, more than a million birds and 100,000 marine mammals and sea
turtles die every year from eating or getting entangled in plastic. The conservation group estimates that 50 percent of all marine litter is some form of
plastic.
There are 46,000 pieces of plastic litter floating in every square mile of ocean, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. In the Northern
Pacific Gyre, a great vortex of ocean currents, there's now a swirling mass of plastic trash about 1,000 miles off the coast of California, which spans an
area that's twice the size of Texas, including fragments of plastic bags.
There's six times as much plastic as biomass, including plankton and jellyfish, in the gyre. "It's an endless stream of incessant plastic particles
everywhere you look," says Dr. Marcus Eriksen, director of education and research for the Algalita Marine Research Foundation, which studies plastics
in the marine environment. "Fifty or 60 years ago, there was no plastic out there."