Symphony Environmental, a company that specialises in controlled life plastics, has strongly criticised a ‘position paper’ issued by the Bioplastics Council, operating from the USA, which repeats the allegations made against oxo-biodegradable plastics last year.
A statement by Symphony Environmental says: “The increasingly desperate efforts of the hydro-biodegradable (vegetable-based or ‘compostable’) plastic companies to rubbish oxo-biodegradable plastics are becoming laughable.”
It reiterates the fact that the allegations made last year in Europe have been comprehensively refuted by Professor Gerald Scott, Professor Emeritus of Polymer Science at Aston University in the UK, and chairman of the British Standards Institute’s Committee on Biodegradability of Plastics.
“In particular, the Professor refuted their allegation that oxobio plastics just fragment and do not biodegrade, and explains that the additive formulation reduces the molecular weight of the material to the point where it is no longer a plastic, allowing it to be consumed by bacteria and fungi,” says the statement.
