Brazilian NGO endorses oxo-bio

Brazilian environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO), FUNVERDE (Green Foundation), has endorsed oxo-biodegradable plastics as what it believes to be the country’s most effective solution to plastics waste that escapes into the environment.

“€œIn researching solutions to our plastics waste problem, we found that oxo-biodegradable technology causes plastics to convert at the end of their useful life into a material which will degrade, then biodegrade, in the environment in the same way as a leaf€,” said Claudio Jose Jorge, FUNVERDE’s president.

UK-based oxo-biodegradable technology supplier, Symphony Environmental, already has a strong presence in Brazil and its d2w additive is distributed by RES Brazil, which is authorised to use the FUNVERDE logo.

Brazil has a substantial plastics waste problem and FUNVERDE has been conducting research into degradable plastics since 2005.

Claudio Jose Jorge added: “This is much better than bio-based compostable plastics, which is tested to biodegrade only in the special conditions found in an industrial composting plant, but not in the open environment, and is too expensive for everyday use. Plastics can be made with oxo-biodegradable technology by factories in Brazil at little or no extra cost with their existing machines and polymers, and without any loss of jobs.”

Fonte – Steven Pacitti, Plastics in Packaging, may 30, 2014