The Indian company manufactures fully biodegradable edible plastic packages Bashny.Net

In order to deal with the pollution of plastic waste, the Indian startup company EnviGreen has developed a new product from a combination of natural starch and vegetable oils. In appearance and properties it is similar to plastic, but 100 percent is organic, biodegradable and environmentally friendly material. Now from this "plastic" you can get by eating it in food.

The idea to create revolutionary packages came up with the founder of the EnviGreen Ashwatha the Hedge when he saw how several of the Indian cities due to restrictions on the use of plastic bags people were trying to find an alternative.





Hedge spent four years on research and experiments with different materials, and one day he received a part of the 12 ingredients, including potatoes, cassava, maize, natural starch, vegetable oil, bananas, and flower oil, which in appearance and properties resembled plastic, but it posed no environmental hazard. The manufacturing process is a closely guarded secret, but the young entrepreneur said that the raw materials are first converted into liquid form and then as a result of gradual processing of work packages.

The cost of a package EnviGreen approximately 35 percent higher than the price of a plastic bag, but benefits from their use is incomparably greater in comparison with additional costs. After using these bags decompose naturally in less than 180 days, and if placed in water, at room temperature, they dissolve in less than a day. If you put them in boiling water, the dissolving process takes just 15 seconds.

"We do not use any chemical compounds. Even used for the printing dye is a natural and organic connection" — shows off Aswath. This means that users, throwing them, not only will not harm the environment, but they can even have animals. Indeed, "plastic" bags EnviGreen quite edible, Hedge gladly showed to journalists The Better India. He just wet the bag with water and then swallowed it with a smile on her face.





The state Committee for control of environmental pollution state of Karnataka after a series of tests approved commercial use of packages EnviGreen. They showed that the new product does not contain plastic and other hazardous substances. The combustion of innovative material does not melt and does not emit toxic gases.

The company EnviGreen was built in the Bangalore factory, which produces about 1 thousand metric tons environmentally friendly "plastic" bags per month. It's not very much, given that only monthly Bangalore consumes more than 30 thousand metric tons of plastic bags, but Hedge says that plans to increase production capacity to provide products to individual customers and store owners. They have already started to deliver packages in such corporate trading networks such as Metro and Reliance.

In addition to the environmental protection Aswath Hedge also intends to use the EnviGreen products to support local farmers. "We have a unique idea to involve the farmers in rural areas of Karnataka to the production of raw materials for us, he said. We are also planning to distribute seeds to help them grow the raw products required for production of bags quantities".

According to the Minister of state on issues of environmental protection in India every day is thrown more than 15 thousand tons of plastic waste, of which only 9 thousand tons is recycled, and the development of EnviGreen can help to solve this problem.published

 

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