Issue 03/2016
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Application News<br />
Sustainable Office<br />
Products<br />
Just in time for Earth Day <strong>2016</strong>, Solegear Bioplastic<br />
Technologies (Vancouver, Canada) announced the official<br />
launch of its newly branded, plant-based office accessory<br />
line, Good Natured, and its first B2B partnership with also<br />
Vancouver-based Mills Office Productivity to distribute<br />
the products to business customers in British Columbia.<br />
“We’re proud to team with another Vancouver-based<br />
success story, Mills Office Productivity, to be able to more<br />
effectively reach customers with an innovative plantbased<br />
product that is bound to be a conversation starter<br />
and source of pride.”<br />
Solegear’s Good Natured office product line, colours<br />
and packaging are designed to bring a lighthearted,<br />
modern spirit to a sometimes overlooked and traditional<br />
category of consumer products. Made from the<br />
company’s 85 % plant-based Polysole ® LV1250 PLAbioplastic<br />
– which contains no BPAs, phthalates or other<br />
hazardous additives, and has been certified by the USDA<br />
BioPreferred program – the office accessory line includes<br />
a paper clip dispenser, pencil/pen holder, self-stacker<br />
desk tray, stacking legal desk tray and vertical file holder<br />
available in four designer colours: raspberry, frosting,<br />
licorice and mojito. The products are injection molded<br />
by Columbia Plastics, a local Solegear manufacturing<br />
partner since 2015.<br />
“Being a B Corp, our environmental performance is<br />
very important to Mills’ overall valuesGood-Natured<br />
and mission,” said Brad Mills, CEO of Mills Office<br />
Productivity. B Corps are for-profit companies certified<br />
by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of<br />
social and environmental performance, accountability,<br />
and transparency. The B Corp movement places the<br />
focus on using business as a force for good, and is<br />
striving to redefine the meaning of success in business.<br />
“This is just the tip of the iceberg for Solegear and<br />
the innovations it plans to deliver to consumers in the<br />
coming years, all designed to lower carbon emissions,<br />
reduce reliance on fossil fuels and remove toxicity<br />
typically associated with traditional petroleum-based<br />
plastics,” said Paul Antoniadis, CEO of Solegear. “We<br />
are excited to continue to disrupt and push the market<br />
to think differently about what’s possible with bioplastics<br />
by reformulating, rebranding and re-launching everyday<br />
products for major brands and retailers. KL/MT<br />
www.mills.ca | www.solegear.ca<br />
Compostable bread bags<br />
In line with its stated commitment<br />
to environmental<br />
sustainability, U2, a large<br />
Italian supermarket chain,<br />
has fitted out its bakery<br />
points of sale with 100 %<br />
bio degradable and compostable<br />
bags made of paper<br />
and a transparent bioplastic<br />
window made from NATIVIA<br />
film.<br />
These biodegradable bags<br />
are the latest development<br />
in the U2 supermarkets’<br />
ongoing campaign against<br />
waste. The aim is to<br />
encourage consumers to<br />
reduce waste, reuse and<br />
recycle the bag. The new bags are available in over 100<br />
supermarkets, which are alerting customers to the use<br />
of the new bag with the help of leaflets and posters with<br />
information on how it works: customers put the fresh<br />
bread in the bag and then re-use it as a biodegradable bag<br />
for the organic waste disposal (after removing the noncompostable<br />
price tag).<br />
NATIVIA is a biobased range of films made of PLA,<br />
produced by Dubai-based Taghleef Industries (Ti). A<br />
truly sustainable biobased film, it offers various end of<br />
life options: products made from PLA are suitable for<br />
incineration, recycling and composting. The new bread<br />
bags supplied at the U2 supermarkets can be used as<br />
a container for the organic waste that ends up in the<br />
industrial composting facilities. In addition, NATIVIA can<br />
be recycled within the paper recycling stream.<br />
Environmental protection has become an integral part<br />
of the U2 supermarket chain’s policy. The chain launched<br />
its campaign in 2014 promoting sustainable solutions<br />
and initiatives that influenced consumer’s behaviours,<br />
attitudes and lifestyles. The introduction of the paper/PLA<br />
100 % biodegradable and compostable bread bags, U2<br />
accomplishes, is a further step towards waste reduction.<br />
As the slogan of the campaign says: “It’s stupid to waste,<br />
It’s good to discover it”.<br />
Taghleef Industries (TI) is proud to provide the<br />
marketplace with a sustainable material that is<br />
comparable to the traditional ones by its quality and<br />
feature. The company has committed to the supermarket<br />
chain’s “against waste” campaign for the period of a<br />
year. NATIVIA represents a remarkable contribution<br />
to improving sustainability of modern packaging. Ti<br />
position itself as one of the value-chain partners and<br />
the use of such packaging material supports the work of<br />
companies that take an integrated approach: economical,<br />
environmental and social.<br />
The new bread bags are made by Italian Turconi SpA<br />
and they are certified (EN 13432) for industrial composting<br />
by Vinçotte (certificate code S565). MT<br />
www.nativia.com<br />
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