Experts in plastic affirm that the biodegradable material “is a myth”

“The biodegradable stock exchanges are a myth”, this was what the professor Richard Thomson affirmed during a public audience on plastic bags organised by the group The Greens/European Free Alliance Group the past 19 February in the European Parliament. Richard Thomson stood out that the material of the biodegradable stock exchanges also takes a clear-cut period of time in degrading , what follows supposing a threat for the environingingment. The professor underlined the need of concienciar to the population about the reuse to end to reduce the broadcast of rubbish.

During the seminar Ton Emans, president of PRE, confirmed that a small quantity of so alone 2% of material degradable in the channel of recycled is creating problems of quality to the recicladores. The president of plastics Recyclers Europe stood out this question by means of a video that showed to the politicians how are recycling the plastic bags in the Yield of the Low Countries to produce products recycled of high quality. Ton Emans Did upsetting in that the European key is in the development of plastics of high quality after his recycled for the manufacture of new products, and no in deceiving to the consumer about the biodegradabilidad and/or compostabilidad of the products with the environingingment that promote some companies. During his intervention, Emans also did reference to the study EuPc of the past year, where showed the problems caused by the materials degradables in the currents of real recycling. Fact that, according to the president of Pre, can not ignore if we want to take us seriously the management of plastic waste.