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Design a new strategy for evaluating biodegradation mechanisms between plant tape and industrial tapes
Summary
Researchers compared the biodegradation mechanisms and mechanical properties of conventional polypropylene-based packaging tapes (BOPP and BOPP/CaCO3) with a plant-based tape using laboratory testing. The plant-based tape showed superior degradability and breaking strength, with the study elucidating possible degradation mechanisms for each tape type.
Abstract China’s express delivery industry is developing rapidly, but the degradation and non-degradability of packaging tapes have been tremendously controversial and the degradation mechanism is not clear. In this work, the biodegradation behavior/mechanism and mechanical property of the polypropylene-based tape (BOPP tape), polypropylene doped with calcium carbonate (BOPP/CaCO 3 tape), and Plant-based tape (Plant tape) are discussed. It is found that the degradability ability and breaking strength of Plant tape are better than BOPP and BOPP/CaCO 3 tapes. Simultaneously, the possible degradation mechanisms of three tapes under three degradation ways were presented, providing a theoretical basis for developing their potential uses in the green packaging, express, and electronic industries.