Keeping it Green!
S&Q Plastic is proud to bring you our Green LineTM of environmentally friendly kitchen and industrial strength bags. Manufactured to include some of the most cutting edge resins, our Green LineTM garbage bags give you a wide range of applications all designed to be as environmentally safe and responsible as possible.
In fact it’s not just our garbage bags that degrade, but our entire line of products.
We also use as much Recycled Materials in our production as possible. This helps to further reduce the ecological footprint of our plastic film. The ReverteTM Oxo-biodegradable additive technology we implement breaks down the polymer chains within the plastic, all while being able to fully control the product lifecycle. These techniques can be applied to any of our product lines to create a completely degradable, Earth friendly Green LineTM of Blown Film goods.
We also offer a fully certified compostable kitchen organics bag series made from 100% biodegradable resins. Our ImpactTM Compostable Kitchen Organics Series of bags meets the ASTM D6400 "Specifications for Compostable Plastics" standards and carries the Biodegradable Products Institute Logo. We specialize in custom orders and are able to produce our blown film products in the sizes, colours and degradable timelines to best suite your needs. This wide selection of customizable and degradable options gives us the continued ability to be a full service one stop shop for all your blown film needs.
No More Guessing!
Here is a list of definitions you need to know to make an informed decision when it comes to degradable film and help clear up the confusion out there. These definitions derive from ASTM D6400 and are specific to plastics.
- Compostable Plastic: a plastic that undergoes degradation by biological processes during composting to yield carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass at a rate consistent with other known compostable materials and leave no visible, distinguishable or toxic residue.
- Degradable Plastic: a plastic designed to undergo a significant change in its chemical structure under specific environmental conditions, resulting in a loss of some properties that may be measured by standard test methods appropriate to the plastic and the application in a period of time that determines its classification.
- Biodegradable Plastic: a degradable plastic in which the degradation results from the action of naturally occurring microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, and algae.
- Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic: A two-stage process in which plastic is first converted by reaction with oxygen to molecular fragments that are water wettable. Oxo-Biodegradable plastic will first undergo chemical degradation by oxidation. This results in physical disintegration and a drastic reduction in molecular weights. Second, these smaller oxidized molecules are biodegraded and converted into carbon dioxide, water and biomass, by microorganisms. These smaller, lower molecular weight fragments are then amenable to biodegradation by microbes.
- ASTM D6002 defines compostable as: Capable of undergoing biological decomposition in a compost site as part of an available program, such that the material is not visually distinguishable and breaks down into carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass, at a rate consistent with known compostable materials.
- Disintegrate: Material is indistinguishable in the compost, i.e. not visible and does not need to be screened out
- Eco-toxicity: Biodegradation does not produce any toxic material and compost (hummus) can support plant growth. Measured by concentration of heavy metals below limits set by the standards and testing of plant growth.
- Biodegrades: A substance that breaks down into carbon dioxide, water and biomass.
- ASTM: The American Society for Testing and Materials.
- Green LineTM: S&Q Plastic’s Line of 100% degradable plastic Products using either fully Compostable or Oxo-Biodegradable inputs.
Everything you need to know!
ReverteTM Oxo-Biodegradable is an additive technology which gives plastic programmable degradation triggered by UV and thermo-oxidation, meaning once the additive is activated, the presence of oxygen causes the plastic to have a reduction of molecular weight and become very brittle. This brittleness causes the plastic to break up into smaller fragments. These fragments then decompose further into simple elements: carbon dioxide, water and biomass. Heat, sunlight and mechanical stress (i.e. movement) accelerate this degradation process. As the long carbon and hydrogen chains of plastic become shorter and shorter and are now able to incorporate oxygen into their chemical make-up, at which point the plastic turns into organic functional groups (ketones, carboxylic acids, alcohols etc) that attract water. These transformations (to smaller chains in the presence of oxygen and water) create the conditions for the second stage of biodegradation: microbial digestion. Once the molecular mass of the plastics are reduced to below 40,000 molecular weight - due to oxidative degradation - the material becomes water wettable and can sustain a biofilm on its surface. This biofilm supports numerous microorganisms that feed off the carbon and hydrogen elements of the oxidizing plastic. If microorganisms are present (as they are in landfills) these small fragments are included in their tropic chain as food. Biomass is the organic waste of microbe cells. This process is similar to the degradation of lignin in wood.
Our Oxo-biodegradable Green LineTM of garbage bags featuring ReverteTM Technology provides the following advantages:
- Programmable and controlled degradation
- Avoids the emission of methane
- Fully compatible with our recycled raw materials
- Degrades in any environment
- Requires no fertilizers, pesticides or water
- Won't hurt forestland and reduce biodiversity
The ReverteTM Oxo-biodegradable additive also complies with FDA, EU and CFIA standard requirements for food contact and is safe for use in direct food contact applications.
For Further information on ReverteTM Oxo-Biodegradable Technology please see: http://www.oxobioplast.com
Coming Soon: Compostable Explained!
Including all the answers to your compostable plastics Questions.
Coming Soon: Green LineTM FAQ:
Our FAQ about our 100% degradable product line.
What’s best for you!
Compostable Plastics are ideally suited for the environmentally safe discard of organic trash:
Kitchen Organics, Leaves, Paper etc. Are all examples of organic materials that will biodegrade in Compost Facilities in place within certain municipalities.
Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics are ideally suited for the environmentally responsible discard of all types of regular trash that cannot be recycled or will not decompose (organic material). Garbage that will end up in a landfill should be disposed of in Oxo-Biodegradable garbage bags. This helps to reduce the volume of trash within the landfills.