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Plastic bag degrading thanks to the d2w technology

  • Posted on August 21, 2011 at 4:12 am

Here we see some printed plastic packaging film. When it was being made, a small amount of Symphonys d2w additive was put into the ordinary polymer at the factory. It has become an intelligent plastic! We call it Controlled-life plastic, because it will automatically self-destruct at a pre-determined time. The same machines were used in the factory as for normal plastic, and there was little or no extra cost. The normal properties of the polymer are maintained, so flexibility, strength, sealability, printability, and processing speeds and temperatures are all unaffected. The plastic looks and behaves exactly the same as normal plastic until the end of the useful-life of the product, which was decided at the time of manufacture. The plastic material which you see here was designed to start degrading after 18 months, but by adjusting the formulation of the d2w we can programme longer or shorter periods of fitness-for-purpose into the plastic product. Symphonys d2w contains a catalyst that will break the long entangled molecular chains within the polymer which give the plastic product its strength and durability. d2w does not contain heavy-metals. At the end of the useful-life of the product, the d2w automatically breaks down the molecular structure of the polymer, and forms harmless intermediates that are biodegradable. The process continues so long as oxygen is present, and will be accelerated by ultra-violet light and heat in the open environment. It does not need to be …

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