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Product Development with Accelerated Biodegradability: an Application in a Manufacturing Plastic Bags
Summary
Researchers investigated the development of plastic bags with accelerated biodegradability as a strategy to reduce the environmental persistence of conventional plastic packaging. The study applied pro-degradant additives to plastic bag formulations in a manufacturing context and evaluated the resulting degradation rates and material performance characteristics.
Plastic is commonly seen as a threat to the environment because the impacts generated from extraction to final disposal occur and are indisputable.Many strategies and products often appear in commerce in order to curb the consumption of plastic, but the fact is that its characteristics of protection, resistance, and cost are not easily replicable once there is a trend aimed at the development of plastic products that seek to through its advances, do not stop using it, but reduce the impacts generated along this chain.This research seeks to develop a product with the characteristic of accelerated biodegradability, verifying through comparative laboratory tests that the product maintains its performance criteria already established without significant interventions that may imply costs to the product and this characteristic of biodegradation will occur in the product for using commercially available biodegradable additives.