Why choose biodegradable and compostable disposable products?

28/06/2019 0 Comment(s)

Lately we hear about it everywhere, the revolution to eliminate plastic and recycle at most everything that is thrown is now a priority. But why should we choose a biodegradable and compostable product? But above all, what are the advantages of these new products? Let's find out together!

Choosing between a plastic plate or a plate of bioplastic, in words does not seem to make much difference, but for our environment this counts a lot! A disposable plastic product, as much as we like to think it is recycled, often ends up in landfills and incinerators and all this aggravates the already precarious situation of our environment, which is now polluted and submerged by plastic and non-plastic waste. Just think that a plastic bottle needs 100 to 1000 years to degrade!


Instead, the choice of a biodegradable and compostable disposable product will not only help the environment, but will avoid the effort of having to clean them from food residues, it will be possible and easy to throw everything in the collection of the wet.

 

Biodegradable and compostable: what are the differences?

Let's clarify immediately that biodegradable does not automatically mean that it is compostable. Biodegradable means in fact any material that can be broken down by sun, bacteria and natural physical agents into simple chemical compounds such as water, carbon dioxide or methane. European legislation establishes that a product can be defined as biodegradable only if it decomposes by 90% within six months


By compostable element we mean that material which is not only biodegradable but where its decomposition process takes place within three months. So the substantial difference between compostable and biodegradable, is the time it takes for a product to turn into elementary chemical compounds at the biodegradation process.


The realization of the compost allows us to maintain important resources in the area, resources that can be used to enrich our land, help crops and mitigate desertification and hydrogeological risk.

What are the biodegradable and compostable disposable products on the market?

Choosing to help the environment is easy! The variety of biodegradable and compostable disposable products is constantly growing and will help us to minimize the use and consequently the production of plastic.
 
Disposable products cannot be missing in the Ho.Re.Ca sectors, but also in private individuals; choosing to love the environment from today is easy, among the disposable biodegradable and compostable products we also find:
• sticks, skewers and pliers,
• glasses,
• dishes,
• cutlery,
• Finger Food containers,
• containers for Take Away,
• runner,
• placemats,
• napkins,
• cover stain,
• tablecloths.
 
The new materials introduced into the market to replace plastic were:
• bioplastic,
• cellulose pulp,
• birch wood,
• bamboo,
• pine wood.
 
Using these materials, glasses, plates, cutlery, containers and table linens have been made, but unlike plastic, using them means respecting the environment as they are biodegradable and compostable; it will be easy and quick to dispose of them in the wet collection.

At ChiwiShop we care about the environment and we want to do our part to save our planet, so we are committed to keeping up-to-date on ecology by including more and more "environmentally friendly" products on our e-commerce.

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