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Composting in your backyard is not always satisfactory, as some products require specific conditions. Easy in the compostheap are the sugarcane and palm fibre products, 4-8 months, while bioplastics can take up to 3 years under ideal commercial conditions.
EDEN Enterprises offers fully biodegradable products. Sourced from natural ingredients, and as such, accepted by "Mother Earth" for recycling. The PLA pellets from corn products, lactic acid fermented from plant sugars, have been tested on GMO (genetically modified organisms) and showed a negative result.
Due to jumping prices of cornstarch resin raw material, a new development brings aswell oil derived plastic, 100% biodegradable. Compostable plastic is plastic capable of undergoing biological decomposition, as such breaking down to biomass, carbon dioxide and water, not leaving any toxic residues.
Ample info about biodegradable products by going to search engine Google entering the words PLA, Mater-Bi, NaturesWorkLLC, cornstarch, biodegradable plastics and the Standard nrs mentioned below.
Compostable Standards are set by American Society for Testing Materials (ASTM, www.astm.org), European Standardization Committee (CEN) and International Standards Organization (ISO).
Commonly registered certificate nrs are ASTM 6400, ISO 14855 and EN13432.
Please note that any biodegradable material, whether cornstarch, sugarcane, bioplastic, palm or grassfiber, none of them can be recycled together with "real" plastics.
Regarding biodegradability of bioplastics, please click here for important information