When it comes to plastic packaging it accounts for a huge chunk of our worlds single use plastic waste. Switching to a better alternative like plastic made with a renewable source is great. However when it comes to landfills\/recycling\u2026.plastics like PLA corn plastics will act as traditional plastic. PLA acts wonderfully if placed into a industrial compost facility where it will be compostable but unfortunately a majority of people to not have access to these facilities. I am happy to hear that they will be using a renewable source for their plastic, but I wish the plastic would also be biodegradable in landfill like ENSO plastics. Let me know what you think! Leave a comment below dont forget to share this on facebook & twitter!<\/p>\n
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AT&T<\/a> will start packaging its cell phone accessories in bio-plastic instead of petroleum-based plastic next month, the telecom company announced this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n AT&T says the change is its latest effort to reduce the company\u2019s carbon footprint. While the new plastic packaging will contain petroleum, up to 30 percent will be manufactured from plant materials, the company said in a statement.<\/p>\n While most plastics are manufactured from petroleum products like ethane and propane, technological advances have made plant-based plastics more widely available. Like biofuels, bioplastics are manufactured from agricultural crops, like corn and sugarcane.<\/p>\n AT&T said it will start using sugar cane ethanol to produce some of its plastic packaging beginning Oct. 2.<\/p>\n Jeff Bradley, AT&T\u2019s senior vice president for devices, said in a\u00a0statement the company will be the first in its industry to use plant-based plastic packaging for consumer products.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are actively working with our accessory suppliers to incorporate both less packaging and more sustainable plastic and paper,\u201d Bradley said.<\/p>\n The company cut 500 tons of paper and plastic by shrinking its packaging in 2010 and 2011, according to the written statement, and has used soy and vegetable-based ink for some of its accessories cases.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When it comes to plastic packaging it accounts for a huge chunk of our worlds single use plastic waste. Switching to a better alternative like plastic made with a renewable source is great. However when it comes to landfills\/recycling\u2026.plastics like PLA corn plastics will act as traditional plastic. PLA acts wonderfully if placed into a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736,3,4,246],"tags":[1284,1285,1286,1287,1288,271,277,452,626,1289,1290,1291,1292,1293,1294,80,1295],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-latest-blogs","category-latest-news","category-plastic-news","tag-att","tag-att-packaging","tag-att-phones","tag-att-redesigning-their-packaging","tag-biodegadable-enso-plastics-biodegradable-earth-friendly-plastics","tag-biofuels","tag-ethanol","tag-going-green","tag-going-green-with-your-packaging","tag-is-att-a-good-phone-provider","tag-making-plastic-better","tag-more-earth-friendly-plastics","tag-petrochemicals","tag-petroleum","tag-petroleum-corn-plastic","tag-pla","tag-the-best-att-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}