WE WORK FOR A CIRCULAR ECONOMY – We use renewable and sustainable materials that are not toxic throughout their life cycle. After use, our products can be composted. Each of the partners is selected based on their constant commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their operations together with their willingness and ability to innovate.

Each of our partners is selected based on their constant commitment to reducing the environmental impact of their operations together with their will and ability to innovate. Our products are certified according to EEC standards, this ensures that the production plants implement processes and procedures to protect the local environment in which they operate.

BIODEGRADABLE

Breakdown of a material into invisible pieces by the action of microorganisms (it must degrade for at least 90% in 6 months); the material does not necessarily turn into compost. In the presence of oxygen, the material turns into carbon dioxide, water, mineral salts and new biomasses. In the absence of oxygen, the product is converted into carbon dioxide, methane, mineral salts and new biomasses.

COMPOSTABLE

It occurs with the biodegradability and disintegration of the material in a controlled composting system and under certain standard conditions. Furthermore, the material must not act negatively on the composting process and the maximum legal limits established by EN 13432 in terms of heavy metals, toxic or dangerous substances must not be exceeded.

DISINTEGRABLE

Physical fragmentation of the material and loss of visibility in the final compost. Samples of the test material are composted together with organic waste for three months. The residual mass of the test material with dimensions> 2mm must be less than 10% of the initial mass.

EN 13432

European standard for the compostability of disposable products. The tests certify that the products do not adversely affect the composting process and that the maximum level of heavy metals, toxic and dangerous substances is that stated in the standard.

40% of the world production of Plastics is made up of objects whose material is made of PLT, that is Polyethylene.
This material can be colored and mixed with other substances and is the only one, at the moment, to be considered “degradable” within – let’s say – acceptable times, which someone has indicated in 36 months.

No Polyethylene (PE) products have so far shown that they can comply with the EN 13432 standard and meet the biodegradation and compostability requirements set at Community level and the International Association of Industries Producing Plastics and Biodegradable Polymers (IBAW) has recently reported the risks associated with widespread pollution and damage to the plastic recycling systems caused by additives;

Plastic products in oxo-biodegradable PE can fragment into small particles after exposure to sunlight and in conditions of high temperatures and after fragmentation remain largely resistant to biodegradation with the risk, due to the slowness of the process, of an accumulation in the environment.

Biodegradability and Compostability

Biodegradable and compostable products are totally different.
Biodegradability and compostability are the characteristics of natural substances and materials to be assimilated by microorganisms and thus placed in natural cycles.