Biodegradable Ireland - for bags that don't cost the earth

Welcome to Biodegradable.ie - the website from Polybags UK dedicated to Irish customers who want to do their bit for the environment.

As the UK's number one manufacturer of polythene packaging and eco-friendly alternatives, Polybags has a marketing-leading range of green packaging, including compostable and biodegradable ranges, plus products made from 100% recycled material and carbon-neutral, renewable bioplastic.

Whether you're looking for compostable carrier bags, 100% recycled mailing bags or carbon-neutral packing bags, you'll find all the eco-products you need at Polybags.

We offer fast delivery to Ireland plus no VAT and great savings on bulk orders for Irish customers.

Buy in pounds, save in Euros - with a big buy-in-bulk bonus

With Sterling's weakness in the currency market, your Euros go further, so you can buy in pounds and save in Euros!

New customs regulations and increased courier costs mean that small orders do cost a little more post-Brexit, but Polybags' Irish customers who buy in bulk can still take advantage of free delivery to Ireland.

All orders over £180 come with fast and free delivery - add to that the favourable exchange rate and you've got yourself a bulk-buy packaging bargain!

Our green credentials

Polybags take environmental matters very seriously. As a responsible packaging manufacturer, we understand the responsibility we have as a company, both to our environment and to the generations who will inhabit our planet in the future.

We manufacture a huge range of eco-friendly packaging that minimises environmental impact, whilst still enabling you to get the job done with the minimum of fuss, including a wide range of fully compostable products made from natural, starch-based bio-polymers.

We operate a 100%-recycling principle, with manufacturing processes designed to minimise waste wherever possible. We collect all waste in-house and use it to make new products, unless doing so is less energy-efficient than disposing of it.

Our eco-packaging range is expanding all the time, with our compostable, biodegradable and 100%-recycled ranges now accompanied by many products made from renewable material and our innovative I'm Green carbon-neutral range.

Latest news and views on biodegradable packaging

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FV hospital introduces Nylon biodegradable bags to keep safe The environment

In order to contribute to environmental protection, FV Hospital has introduced biodegradable nylon bags. Despite being developed plenty years ago, it was in March 2019 when the project of utilising biodegradable bags at FV was broadly applied in the departments following numerous times of testing the safety and hygiene health levels. Compared to normal plastic bags, the cost of biodegradable bags is about 20% higher, nevertheless in return the materials are absolutely environmentally friendly. The bag is manufactured from quality plastic HDPE or LDPE (*), mixed with bio-additives like biological fatty acids. Under the impact of normal and microorganism factours, above time, the bag decomposes and dissolves into the soil and water environment without causing any environmental pollution.

Other Compostable Packaging Options

With the exception of the paper-outer on the EconicKraft bags, the films used to make Econic have been individually certified to the European and British commercial compostability standards (EN 13432 and ASTM6400) and either the European or British home compostable standards: OK Compost Home or AS5810 . Because Convex specialises in customising Econic, the completed packaging structure has not been officially certified. This enables us to tailour the material mix in each finished bag or film to suit the functionality and aesthetics required for specific products, emblems, production lines and packing processes. We follow robust international testing regimes to ensure that all Econic variants meet recognised compostable packaging guidelines and tests carried out by our technical team have verified they smash down in a normal composting environment.

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Biodegradable plastic

Biodegradable plastics are plastics that are decomposed by the action of living organisms, normally bacteria. [1]

What are the benefits of green packaging'?

Interestingly, going green' with your packaging is not only environmentally friendly. With the proper dedicated research, green packaging can also be cost effective as it can be manufactured utilising less materials. Not only that, less fossil fuels will be used in manufacturing, and these contribute greatly to the amount of carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere the world does not need that problem either.

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Why degradable or biodegradable packaging?

Biodegradation is the process by which organic substances are broken down by the enzymes produced by living organisms.

The website Packagingknowledge.com states: "Conventional plastics do not break down. Litter and landfill waste may take years to degrade. Another problem with ordinary plastics is that anything contained within them may not reach their full degradation potential. This results in a needless waste of valuable landfill space."

Based on the material used, bioplastics can take varying lengths of time to totally compost, but usually biodegrade up to 60% within 90 to 180 days. It is also important to know the differences between degradable, biodegradable and compostable.

Compostable

"Capable of undergoing biological decomposition in a compost site as part of an available program, such that the plastic is not visually distinguishable and breaks down to carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass, at a rate consistent with known compostable materials (e.g. cellulose) and leaves no toxic residue." - American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM).

So in order for a plastic to be called compostable it needs to meet three rules:

1. It needs to be able to biodegrade, i.e. it needs to break down into carbon dioxide, water and biomass at the same rate as cellulose (paper)
2. The material has to fully disintegrate, i.e. be indistinguishable in the compost
3. Eco-toxicity - the biodegradation must not produce any toxic material so that the compost can support plant growth

Biodegradable plastic

Biodegradable plastic is one which can be chemically degraded via natural effectors such as soil bacteria, weather, plants or animals.

Note that there is no requirement for leaving no toxic residue, as well as no requirement for the time it takes to biodegrade.

Degradable plastic

By definition, this term refers to a plastic film containing a controlled percentage of an appropriate non-toxic, non-tinting additive, which will enable the plastic film to totally degrade when exposed to aerobic or anaerobic conditions, including when disposed in a landfill or other regulated dumping area, and within such period of time as specified.

A plastic therefore may be degradable but not biodegradable or it may be biodegradable but not compostable, i.e. it breaks down too slowly to be called compostable or leaves toxic residue.