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perf go green product to be tested here
Enchanted Garden Intentional Community Garden
to test PERG GO GREEN
Date: 1/15/2009 9:33:02 PM ( 15 y ) ... viewed 1978 times
February 7, 09
9:43 AM
BIO-DEGRADATION EXPERIMENT with
PERF GO GREEN:
http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=1346620
January 15, 09
7:30 PM
I am beginning to test PERF GO GREEN BIODEGRADABLE BAGS
in our garden.
I met TONY TRACY at HOLLYWOOD GOES GREEN.
I like the man. I met Linda Daniels. I like her too.
Tony is very sincere about wanting to help the planet
through cleaning up plastic.
I am testing PERF GO GREEN in our garden.
Here is the claim as it appears on the PERG GO GREEN website:
http://www.perfgogreen.com/product-overview.html
Product Overview
Perf Go Green produces Biodegradable Plastic Products that are eco-friendly, non-toxic and food contact compliant. These bags are seen as a practical and necessary solution to the problem of plastic waste around the world.
In 2008 Perf Go Green is launching six Biodegradable Plastic Products including the following:
Perf Go Green 13 Gallon Tall Kitchen Trash Bags
Perf Go Green 30 Gallon Lawn & Leaf Bags
Perf Go Green Plastic Drop Cloths
Perf Go Green Commercial Trash Bags
Perf Go Green Kitty Litter Bags
Perf Go Green Doggie Duty Bags
Perf Go Green products are produced using recycled plastic which reduces plastic in landfills. The recycled plastics are then combined with an OXO-BIODEGRADABLE PROPRIETARY APPLICATION method to produce the film for the bags. This product, when discarded in soil in the presence of microorganisms, moisture and oxygen, biodegrades, decomposing into simple materials found in nature.
Perf Go Green Bags will completely break down in a landfill environment within 2 years leaving no residue or harmful toxins and have a shelf life of 2 years.
Product Features
Perf Go Green Bags have the following features:
Biodegradable –break down completely leaving no toxic or visible residue
Made from recycled plastic
Unique patented dispensing system
- One bag will dispense one after another
- Our dispenser is stored in the bottom of the trash can
- They pop up like tissues
Revolutionary patented perforation design
- Handle tie bags
- Extra Strong
- Perf Go Green is Perfect for the Planet
- Perf Go Green is simply the quickest and easiest way to do trash!
7:37 PM
Is it possible for this PERF GO GREEN TO BE BIODEGRADABLE?
OXO-BIODEGRADABLE PROPRIETARY APPLICATION.
This is what I found.
http://www.ecosafeplastics.com/qs/page/2866/0/-1
This is another product from another company that
does the same thing:
http://www.all-greenjanitorialproducts.com/EcoDegradable-Garbage-Bags-33-Gall...
It is clear that this is possible.
EcoDegradable® and EcoBio® products have undergone full-scale landfill and commercial compost trials. In landfill trials, at ambient temperatures of 20°C to 35°C, EcoDegradable® modified plastic lost more than 95% of its molecular weight (Mw) in less than 10 months. The EcoDegradable®and EcoBio® message is clear and proven. EcoDegradable® degradable products provide the performance of "ordinary" plastic in use. When modified with a proprietary additive, the natural oxidative process of ordinary plastic is accelerated by factors of 100, 1000 and more. This causes the modified plastic to totally degrade and fragment in highly predictable and controllable timeframes. EcoDegradable® and EcoBio® Oxo-biodegradable products establish “controllable lifecycles” for commodity polyolefin products so that once used, they are safely returned to the natural bio-cycle as fragments of “organic carbon”. Carbon that can be colonized, ingested and mineralized by microorganisms in a natural biological process freeing up air space in landfills and helping to mitigate the problem of "accumulating" plastic litter in our environment and watersheds. EcoDegradable® Garbage Bags and Liners are engineered to provide the service and performance of ordinary plastic but will totally fragment and disintegrate in 12 to 24 months when disposed of in a landfill.
7:51 PM
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/14/fsummit.climate.plasticbags/
Plastic fantastic
But not all plastic bags are evil apparently. New technologies developed by a UK-based company Symphony Environmental Technologies are, they say, making plastics far more eco-friendly.
The company manufacture a pro-degradant additive (called d2w) which, when added to polyethylene during production, transforms it into an oxo-biodegradable product. In most cases it takes these bags two years to break down, allowing even small fragments to be consumed by micro-organisms who are able to access the carbon and hydrogen.
Symphony Plastics have been supplying oxo-biodegradable plastic bags to Co-operative supermarkets in the UK for five years, and the UK's Periodical Publishers Association recommends that their members use their products.
CNN spoke to Chief Executive Michael Laurier who is frustrated by the current hysteria engulfing the debate about plastic bags. "The answer is not to ban plastic bags," he said. "When Ireland introduced a tax on plastics bags sales went down by 90 percent, but sales of plastic bin-liners went up by 400 percent."
HISTORY OF PLASTIC BAGS:
The plastic age
Plastics have only been around for about 150 years -- Alexander Parkes created the first man-made plastic in 1862. As they haven't been around that long no one can be sure how long they take to break down. But environmentalists, scientists and manufacturers generally agree that the process can take anything up to 1000 years.
Since their introduction to U.S. supermarkets in the late 1970's plastic bags have become a ubiquitous presence. They were a blessing for every shopkeeper in the world; being lighter, stronger and cheaper than the conventional paper bag. Their numbers spread rapidly and it is now estimated that the annual worldwide consumption of plastic bags is currently running at between 500 billion to one trillion.
The average plastic shopping bag is made from polyethylene -- a thermoplastic made from oil -- and rivals a cockroach for indestructibility.
They biodegrade very slowly. In fact, they photodegrade which means they over time break down into smaller, more toxic petro-polymers which eventually contaminate soils and waterways. As a consequence their microscopic particles can enter the food chain.
When plastic bags don't get dumped in landfill sites or incinerated, they often find their way into the sea via drains, rivers and sewage pipes. According to the British Antarctic Survey, plastic bags have been found floating north of the Arctic Circle near Spitzbergen, and as far south as the Falkland Islands.
The Center for Marine Conservation based in Washington D.C. recently completed a five year study into ocean debris. Their National Marine Debris Monitoring Program recorded that plastic bags accounted for over 10 percent of the debris washed up on the U.S. coastline.
Don't Miss
Plastic bag gallery
Symphony Plastics
Greenpeace "cooking the planet"
The effect on wildlife can be catastrophic, with birds becoming terminally entangled and, according to a World Wildlife Fund report in 2005, they affect nearly 200 different species of sea life (including whales, dolphins, seals and turtles) which die after ingesting plastic bags which they mistake for food.
CONTRARY OPINION FROM BRIAN MERCHANT ON TREE HUGGER:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/10/perf-go-green-biodegradable-plastics.php
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