BLOG: Biodegradable Plastic Bags!
An article in the Whakatane Beacon recently caught my attention. It featured a local man John Fell who is importing biodegradable plastic bags into NZ and supplying retailers with them for the same cost as normal plastic shopping bags!
Unable to resist the temptation, I rang him and organised to meet wioth him to learn more about this amazing new technology.
What I learned was this ....
There are two main types of biodegradable plastics; oxo-biodegradeable, which are also recyclable and hydro-biodegradable which can not be recycled as they contaminate the new plastic product.
Mr Fell then invited me to a diiner in Wellington with the Keep New Zealand Beautiful Trust. There I met a number of other business people who also supply biodegrabale products as substitutes for many of our 'one-use/throw-away' options.
Last week British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called on British businesses to cut sharply the 13 billion plastic shopping bags that are used and wasted each year in Britain. ... Read the full text of this blog post.
