Essential Packaging is pleased to offer our customers "oxo-biodegradable" additive technology, which allows common petrochemical based plastic packaging to degrade and ultimately biodegrade, thereby eliminating the increasing burden of persistent plastics in our society and in our environment.

As consumer "green" movements build momentum and governments begin to levy fines and legislate penalties against producers and consumers of non-biodegradable plastics, the need for a proactive response by manufacturers, converters, consumer product companies and their retailers becomes an important strategic initiative.

Also, until now, economic, product performance and manufacturing issues have all been insurmountable barriers to the plastics industry's goal of achieving a cost effective degradable and biodegradable single use plastic.

Degradable and biodegradable products offer a lot of benefits, which include:

• No adverse toxicological effects or by-products ddd
• Food compatible - complies with FDA (USA) and EFSA (Europe) and applicable food additive regulations
• Ideal for single use or reusable limited life plastic applications
• Recyclable (pre- and post-consumer prior to degradation)
• Customized degradable additives: formulated for compost, agricultural and landfill environments, including inadvertent litter disposal
• Helps reduce waste and will assist in the reduction of greenhouse gases
• Processed on existing manufacturing equipment globally
• Proven to degrade in a landfill environment, ultimately taking up less landfill space
• Controlled lifetime products from manufacture, to service life, to disposal
• Degradation is triggered by heat, UV light / sunlight (enhanced by mechanical stress and moisture)
• Endorsed by EPI's International Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB)
• Already used extensively in Europe, North America and Australia where critically limited landfill areas must be prudently managed
• Conserves the environment for future generations
• Cost effective and affordably priced

Essential Packaging is committed to offering our customers products which minimize the impact of plastic waste globally on the natural environment, in cooperation with our partners, licensees and end-users. We are dedicated to promoting the responsible use and disposal of plastics in society, creating a sustainable environment for current and future generations.

For more information please contact us at 604-575-1117 or info@essentialpackaging.com