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No escape for plastics
Twelve8 Technology has brought to market PaktoEarth eco-plastic packaging material that is recyclable but will also decompose in natural conditions if the packaging ends up in landfill.
WHILE the packaging industry continue to invest in recycling infrastructure and works to find a fully circular solution for plastic waste across all material types, Twelve8’s PaktoEarth technology is positioned as a solution for the large amount of plastic packaging that still ends up in landfill or polluting the environment. Twelve8 founder and managing director Anthony
Harrison says PaktoEarth contains a pro-degradant built in additive – RAWS- tech – containing a patented formula that is added to plastic so that it can break down with
PaktoEarth’s tech allows plastic to decompose.
“zero waste”. “Our breakdown effectiveness means our packaging breaks down to CO2, water and less than one per cent biomass, with zero waste.”
Harrison says there is no industrial or commercial treatment required for the material to naturally decompose. It has been tested and approved to start decomposing at 24 degrees (16 degrees in the lab). “This is an eco-insurance policy taking care of plastic that escapes the recycling circle and ends up in landfill or left behind in the environment.”
He says RAWS-tech can be used for polypropylene, polyethylene (PE), high-density polyethylene (HDPE) and low-density polyethylene (LDPE) in flexible and rigid (up to 10mm)packagingapplications.
“We’re working on PET and other plastic, however, this is some time away,” Harrison says.
The company can supply PaktoEarth products as masterbatch pellets to be blended at one per cent (depending on the end-user product); as film; as blended pellets with virgin and/or recycled plastic; as end-user products in production (e.g. existing moulds); and as customised end-user products
“There is no disruption to the manufacturing process or need for specialised or high-cost machinery to use PaktoEarth,” he says.
The newly patented RAWS- tech has been internationally tested and certified under the international standards for biodegradable plastics: ASTM 6954andGBT20197. ✷
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