Pura Vida Bioplastics - Blog

We’re the biggest contributor to the waste problem, per new NAS analysis commissioned by Congress There’s a “deluge” of plastic mucking up the Earth’s oceans,

The term “bioplastics” is used to describe both fossil fuel-derived plastics that are biodegradable (they break down to some level at some point in time-

Oxo-biodegradable means that the plastic (generally a conventional fossil-fuel-based polymer) has an additive that speeds up the degradation process (a pro-oxidant), causing the plastic to

Marine Degradable generally means a material has the ability to completely biodegrade under marine environmental conditions including aerobic marine waters or anaerobic marine sediments within

In industrial composting facility—where they can break the bioplastic down into tiny pieces and compost it with very high heat, along with the proper mix

Home composting produces nutrient-rich soil as a result of the breakdown of organic waste such as food scraps, grass clippings, leaves, and tea bags. This

Compostable means: “materials which biodegrade in a composting process through the action of naturally occurring microorganisms and do so to a high extent within a

The term “biodegradable” is used to describe plastics and materials able to degrade and break down into their individual molecules and biomass through the use

The term “Degradable” refers to the material’s polymers that are partially or completely physically altered from environmental factors including light (photodegradation), heat (thermal degradation), chemical

There is a lot of confusion about the terms like biodegradability and composability. It turns out these definitions can be more complicated than they seem