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We have the best answer to Biodegradable packaging for one BIG REASON...COST.   This is biodegradability that will actually be used because it's no more expensive than standard resin.

Make a huge marketing splash, GREEN up your packaging, and keep your packaging costs and performance the same.  It's a no brainer.

We are the first major thermoformer to bring truly Biodegradable plastic containers to food processors that:

  • Are COST competitive with non-Bio plastic

  • Gives you the marketing advantage against competitors using standard plastic or even PLA

  • Allows you to have 100% Biodegradable PET and Polypropylene containers within  45 days

  • Are available in high volume production NOW

  • Have the same performance as non-Bio plastic

  • Actually Biodegrades in landfills, seawater and when littered

  • Has unlimited shelf life during use and in storage

  • Is 100% recyclable with non Bio plastics - won't destroy the current recycle programs in the U.S.

  • Doesn't use Genetically Engineered agricultural products

Product
Shelf Life
Affected by Light
Affected by Heat
Starch Based Resins
1 - 4 months
Yes
Yes
C&L Bio
Indefinite
No
No
Starch Based Additive
1 - 6 months
Yes
Yes
Photodegradables
2 - 4 months
Yes
Yes
Oxo-Degradables
2 - 6 months
Yes
Yes
Wood Based Resins
3 - 6 months
No
Yes
Switch Grass
1 - 4 months
Yes
Yes

 

Product
Affected by Moisture
Affected by Mechanical Stress
Remnants
Starch Based Resins
Yes
Yes
Co2, Biogas
C&L Bio Plastic
No
No
Biomass,
Co2, Biogas
Starch Based Additive
Yes
Yes
Plastic resin,
Co2, Biogas
Photodegradables
Yes
Yes
Heavy metals,
Plastic resin
Oxo-Degradables
Yes
Yes
Cobalt, Cadmium, other toxic residue
Wood Based Resins
Yes
No
Co2, Biogas
Switch Grass
Yes
Yes
Co2, Biogas

 

Product
Landfill Biodegradation
Compost Biodegradation
Starch Based Resins
Never
30 - 180 days
C&L Bio Plastic
1 - 5 years
1 - 5 years
Starch Based Additive
Never / Reduces mass
3 months - 5 years
Photodegradables
Never / Reduces mass
3 months - 5 years
Oxo-Degradables
Never / Reduces mass
3 months - 5 years
Wood Based Resins
Never
Almost impossible
Switch Grass
Never
30 - 180 days
  
The technology is an additive which, when combined in small quantities with any of the popular plastic resins, renders the end products biodegradable while maintaining their other desired characteristics. It is bought as an additive and used without having to modify our existing methods of production. The potential uses of this technology are limited only by the imagination.

The resulting plastic products exhibit the same desired mechanical properties, have effectively similar shelf-lives, and yet, when disposed of, are able to be metabolized into inert biomass by the communities of microorganisms commonly found almost everywhere on this planet.

This biodegradation process can take place aerobically and anaerobically. It can take place with or without the presence of light. These factors allow for biodegradation even in landfill conditions which are normally inconducive to any degradation. The technology differs significantly from other "degradable plastics" emerging in the market today because it does not attempt to replace the currently popular plastic resin formulizations but instead enhances them by rendering them biodegradable. The Company believes that it has the most cost-effective biodegradable plastic technology available today.

Recognizing the environmental concerns related to plastics and the market potential, the corporate and scientific communities have long sought to develop degradable plastics. However, the Company believes that degradable plastics introduced to date possess several weaknesses that have prevented wide-spread acceptance in the marketplace. Photo-degradable products, for example, do not degrade in landfills due to the lack of sunlight (they are typically covered with another layer of trash before the degradation can occur).

At the same time these photo-degradable products present difficult circumstances for storage before use due to their reactivity to light. Similarly, plastic products manufactured with high amounts cornstarch and cottonseed fillers fail to breakdown the molecular structure of the products' plastic components, are very expensive to manufacture, and often do not achieve the requisite physical properties.

C&L's technology is a process which enables the microorganisms in the environment to metabolize the molecular structure of plastic films into an inert humus-like form that is harmless to the environment. The process utilizes several proprietary bio-active compounds that are combined into a masterbatch pellet that is added to plastic resins using existing technology. The biodegradation process begins with proprietary swelling agent that, when combined with heat and moisture, expands the plastics' molecular structure. After the swelling agent creates space within the plastic's molecular structure, the masterbatch's combination of bio-active compounds, discovered after thousands of laboratory trials, attracts a colony of microorganisms that metabolize and neutralize the plastic.

Several renowned testing laboratories have been engaged to independently establish the biodegradability of the plastic films made with this process. The tests concluded that the films were biodegradable under short and long-term aerobic conditions and asserted that they would degrade under anaerobic conditions over a longer period of time. In addition, the tests concluded that the films did not produce any toxic residue harmful to living organisms in land or water.

C&L's process only nominally effects production costs. This is largely because the technology does not rely on changing to re-engineered plastics which have not achieved economies of scale but merely requires adding a small percentage of a masterbatch to existing resins.
 
In addition, the biodegradability of the final product does not jeopardize the products' quality. Plastic products making use of the this technology can be manufactured to be clear, as well as opaque, and in any color. C&L believes that the average consumer will be unable to differentiate between traditional plastic products and those produced with the Bio technology on the basis of appearance or performance.

 

Containers made from our Bio-Resins have unlimited shelf life, and are not activated by moisture, sunlight, or harsh chemicals or oils.  Only the microorganisms found in landfills and composting begin the process.  Plus they recycle with standard PET and Polypropylene, with no problems.  This is what you've been looking for.  Call us for a fact sheet - (630) 717-5400

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C&L America Inc.

715 DeLasalle Ct. Naperville, IL  60565  

(630) 717-5400

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