• Each year, an estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide. That equals over one million bags per minute. An estimated four billion plastic bags end up as litter each year. Tied end to end, that's enough to circle the earth 63 times.
• According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. goes through about 100 billion plastic shopping bags annually. An estimated 12 million barrels of oil is required to make that many plastic bags.
• Australians alone consume about 6.9 billion plastic bags each year, that's 326 per person. According to Australia's Department of Environment, an estimated 49,600,000 annually end up as litter.
• Four out of five grocery bags in the US are now plastic. The average family accumulates 60 plastic bags in only four trips to the grocery store.
• According to the WSJ Target, the second-largest retailer in the U.S., purchases 1.8 billion bags a year.
• According to the BBC, only 1 in 200 plastic bags in the UK are recycled.

What is the problem of Tradition Plastic Bags?

• Can take up to 1,000 year to decompose
• Traditional plastic bags pollute the eco-system and cause thousands of sea turtle and other marine animal deaths every year when animals mistake them for food.
• Plastic bags are responsible for blocking drains.

What is the difference between traditional plastic bags and biodegradable plastic bags?
Conventional plastic bags can persist unchanged for many years in such environments. The same items made from plastics with special additives safely degrade and biodegrade within a few months to 2 - 3 years in these environments. In landfills, they reduce landfill volume and help maximize capacity utilization and they aid in landfill compression. While not a solution to littering, degradable plastic bags help in its management by avoiding accumulation of litter.

How do Biodegradable Bags Work?

• Additives are blended into the commodity PE, PP, PS resins during production to impart to the plastic special degradation properties without impacting productivity or product integrity.
• After use, when the product is disposed of in landfills, compost sites, or inadvertently as litter, these products undergo oxidative degradation much more rapidly than ordinary plastics.
• Mechanisms that trigger this process are heat input, sunlight (UV light) and mechanical stress.
• For PE products in the presence of moisture, microorganisms, oxygen, and soil these products will ultimately biodegrade.

When do the Biodegradable bags start to degrade?
The Biodegradable bags are just as strong as traditional plastic bags. We can control the amount of the active ingredient added when the bags are produced, and thus the amount of time taken for the bags to degrade. The current level of the ingredient allows a shelf life of 18-24 months when the bags are stored in a cool, dry place, ensuring our customers are able to maximize use of the product. We can reuse them as many times as traditional plastic bags.