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Degradable and biodegradable plastic films, bags and packaging

Enhance your brand by advertising the fact you are using degradable and biodegradable plastic with substantiated environmental claims statements, right on your bag or package. Today your consumers demand a responsible and sustainable approach to the environment when using low cost, convenient and disposable products. Starpak believes in providing packaging solutions to our customers using EPI's proven technology that not only look great but consider the environment and future generations.

These new carrier bags are manufactured using additives that are the basis for oxobio-degradable plastics technology. The bags are 100%degradable. After use. and upon exposure to sunlight (UV) or heat (such as found In landfills) these special plastic bags will be begin to break down through oxidation into small fragments. When these fragments are exposed to soil. moisture and microorganisms such as those

found in soil they will biodegrade and leave behind only carbon dioxide. water. biomass and a small amount of minerals which will go back Into the soil. But don't worry! These bags are Just as strong as ever and can be used again and again until the breakdown process begins. normally after a useful life of approximately two years before they are discarded and begin to degrade. Whenever discharged in

a landfill. or littered. these bags will disintegrate very much more rapidly than ordinary plastic bags. Help eliminate the accumulation of plastics In the environment using degradable and biodegradable plastic products. These degra-dable bags will help reduce waste and the production of greenhouse gases and will break down and disappear If littered. look for other products using oxo-biodegradable technology from EPI.

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• IDEAL for single use or limited life plastic applications
• COST EFFECTIVE processed on standard equipment at current rates of production, specification and quality using commodity resins at extremely low addition rates of TDPA® additives
• FOOD COMPATIBLE complies with FDA (USA) and SCF (Europe) and applicable direct food contact regulations. No adverse toxicological effects or by-products
• RECYCLABLE pre and post-consumer, prior to degradation
• CUSTOMIZED degradable additives formulated for compost, agricultural and landfill environments including inadvertent litter disposal

STARPAK INDUSTRIES IS AN AUTHORIZED DISTRIBUTOR OF EPI ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS INC. TDPA® TECHNOLOGY.