In today’s times, balancing and maintaining a business to meet customer demand can be difficult. The public demands unique, cost effective and planet friendly products prompting business owners to creatively meet these requests. In the recent months, more retailers are switching to biodegradable plastic bags in their stores, and many manufacturers are packaging their products using degradable \ biodegradable plastics. B Green is also responding to the demands of consumers by providing planet friendly alternatives to regular plastics by providing our customers with fully certified degradable \ biodegradable options.  

B Green Products offers an Oxo-Biodegradable additive using the latest technology that supports the 3 R’s of Packaging Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and provides a fourth R, Remove. Independent Scientific Testing show that plastics incorporated with an additive called Renatura™ will degrade and then fully biodegrade, without leaving behind harmful residues in the soil. These Oxo-Biodegradable plastic products are scientifically proven to be non toxic and are FDA compliant, meaning they are safe for food packaging applications and have been awarded approved food film contact ‘no migration’ status. The additive meets ASTM D 6954 Standard Guide for Exposing and Testing Plastics that Degrade in the Environment by a Combination of Oxidation and Biodegradation, as well as D5338 Standard Test Method for Determining Aerobic Biodegradation of Plastic Materials under Controlled Composting Conditions.

Regular plastic bags can take up to 100 years to break down causing plastic pollution and harm to both domestic and wild life. Standard plastics are filling our landfills and greatly impacting our planet. Plastics incorporating this additive in the presence of oxygen disappear when exposed to UV light or thermal heat. The product is designed to allow plastics to degrade like a leaf, slowly yielding CO₂ (which through photosynthesis becomes oxygen), water, bio-waste, and mineral salts that condition the soil in the process.

The cost of changing from regular plastic bags to B Green Oxo- Biodegradable plastic bags is negligible, and depending on the type of packaging application, can cost considerably less than non degradable \ biodegradable plastics. Many large companies are incorporating degradable plastic packaging including the Body Shop, Coca-Cola, Quantis and Butchart Gardens. B Green is committed to meeting environmental   needs by providing customers with environmentally safe, practical solutions for their businesses.