Break-Through Technology Makes Plastics Biodegradable

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TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS:

Break-Through Technology Makes Plastics Biodegradable

OHIO, PAINESVILLE, Mar. 13 -/E-Wire/-- 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 sold as ECM MasterBatch Pellets and the Company has developed the technology to the point where most plastic products manufacturers can use the additive without having to modify their existing methods of production any more than if they were changing the product's color.

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.

Once upon a time, household plastic products stayed unchanged in landfills, in forests, in oceans and along the side of the road for hundreds of years, creating environmental issues throughout the world. Finally, the technology is available to put this problem to rest.

Recycling is beneficial when natural resources are truly saved. However, in many cases the recycling of products such as trash bags and food packaging consumes more natural resources than simply throwing the products away and making new.

ECM BioFilms, Inc., located in Painesville, Ohio, produces an additive that enables common plastics to naturally biodegrade. Since very small amounts of the additive are needed during manufacturing, the physical properties, functionality and appearance of the finished products remain the same.

"Plastics have been a great help to the three 'R's' of ecology: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle; and they would be considered environmentally-friendly, if they didn't stick around for hundreds of years," said ECM BioFilms' President and CEO, Robert Sinclair. "Now, plastics with our additive quickly return to the soil, completing the environmental process."

Patrick Riley, president of ECM BioFilm, [REDACTED-PHONE]

http://www.ecmbiofilms.com

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