Plastic has become an important aspect in our lives, can you imagine what kind of care you would get in a hospital if we didn\u2019t have plastic?\u00a0 Some historians are saying that this age will be known as the plastic age.\u00a0 The next time you go to the store take a look around and see if you can find products that don\u2019t have plastic.\u00a0 As important as plastic is to our lives it has also demonstrated some negative side effects and there isn\u2019t any one perfect answer for solving plastic pollution.<\/p>\n
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Here in the U.S. recycling rates for plastic is less than 30 percent which means a lot of plastic is ending up in a landfill.\u00a0 Many other countries do a much better job of\u00a0recycling<\/span><\/a> then we do here in the U.S., and our recycling rate isn\u2019t going to improve until the recycling industry develops markets for recycled materials.<\/p>\n Many companies are trying to do something about plastic pollution and are developing more environmentally friendly plastics. There are basically three types of plastics which are considered to be more\u00a0environmentally\u00a0friendly<\/span><\/a> which are: Compostable, Degradable and Biodegradable plastics.<\/p>\n Compostable plastics are common<\/p>\n ly called Polylactic Acid (PLA) are made from plants.\u00a0 Here is the U.S. most PLA is made from corn.\u00a0 PLA is compostable but must be processed by a commercial composting facility.\u00a0 There aren\u2019t many commercial composting facilities so most PLA will end up in a garbage dump.\u00a0 PLA doesn\u2019t biodegrade quickly so once it finds its way into a landfill it will remain there for a long time.<\/p>\n Degradable plastics degrade through photo\u00a0degradation<\/span><\/a> and oxygen degradation isn\u2019t biodegradable plastic, they are degradable plastics.\u00a0 Degradable plastic breaks down (degrades) into smaller and smaller pieces until they are too small to see.\u00a0 The plastic doesn\u2019t biodegrade; it just gets too small to see.<\/p>\n The third type of plastic is a truly biodegradable plastic, and will biodegrade leaving behind biogases and humus.\u00a0 A recently introduced biodegradable plastic is the ENSO biodegradable plastic bottle with EcoPure.\u00a0 The ENSO plastic bottle is standard Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic with EcoPure G2 additive.\u00a0 When placed in a microbial environment, the ENSO bottle will attract\u00a0microbes<\/span><\/a> which consume plastic in either an\u00a0anaerobic<\/span><\/a> (no oxygen) or aerobic (with oxygen) environment.<\/p>\n There isn\u2019t any one perfect answer that will solve plastic pollution.\u00a0 However, we are working toward a solution that will help.<\/p>\n By<\/p>\n Max<\/p>\n ENSO Bottles<\/p>\n www.ensobottles.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plastic has become an important aspect in our lives, can you imagine what kind of care you would get in a hospital if we didn\u2019t have plastic?\u00a0 Some historians are saying that this age will be known as the plastic age.\u00a0 The next time you go to the store take a look around and see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[570,625,342,12],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-blogs","tag-biodegradable-bottles","tag-biodegradable-plastic-bottles","tag-biodegradable-plastics","tag-enso-bottles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}