made from vegetable starch
& truly biodegradable

Our biodegradable products can be made to your own specifications and can display a message highlighting the environmentally friendly nature of the product.

A truly biodegradable product

Biodegradable Bags and Packaging Pty Ltd supplies a range of BIO-DEGRADABLE
and COMPOSTABLE products:

• all of these products are produced from vegetable starch
• all are manufactured in Victoria
• all comply with Australian and European standards for both commercial and home compostability.

Our products differ greatly from those described as DEGRADABLE. People are often shocked to find out the difference. DEGRADABLE plastic products simply have an additive that over time will break the product up into smaller pieces. These pieces may then take many, many decades to disappear.

If you see the term 100% degradable or the trademark EPI on a bag, then you will know it is simply a plastic bag that has been chemically treated and will only breakup into smaller pieces.

Our products will perform like standard plastic products in that they will have a normal shelf life, however they are designed to break down in the presence of micro-organisms which are found in landfill, compost and in fresh and salt water.

“Clean up Australia” and “Planet Ark”suggest:
Estimates that 100,000 whales, seals and other marine creatures are killed each year by plastic bags that end up on our beaches and in our waterways.		Plastic bags have a lifespan of between 20 and 1000 years and in Australia, we use around 7 billion plastic bags annually.
That just under 21,000 tonnes of plastic are disposed of in landfill sites throughout Australia every year.		On average, all Australian capital cities will reach present landfill capacity by 2010.
THE TRASH VORTEX
The areas of the Pacific Ocean shown in yellow dots contain a plastic to plankton ratio of six to one!