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Commercial vs Home compostable packaging: One is still a source of pollution!

Leave a Comment / Composting, commercially compostable products / By Marion Vigot

Let’s start with a simple question: What exactly are commercially compostable products? Commercially compostable products are made of bioplastics. Bioplastics are not naturally present in the environment. They are made from components which are biobased. Biobased means the material or product is either in full or in part derived from biomass (plants), compared to

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Feb 25 2021

Better understanding compostable packaging in Australia in 2021

Leave a Comment / Composting, commercially compostable products, home compostable products / By Marion Vigot

Better understanding compostable packaging in Australia in 2021 We use 5.4 million tonnes of packaging per year, with only 11,000 tonnes certified compostable and and only 1500 tonnes recovered through composting (source: APCO and Packaging News). Did you know that both commercial and home compostable products are available on the market? Home compostable products are less

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Better Understanding Comp Packaging in Aus

Feb 23 2021

Compostable Alternatives is based in Adelaide, on the traditional lands of the Kaurna people. In the spirit of reconciliation here in Australia, we would like to thank the traditional custodians of this land for their care and regeneration of Country over thousands of years; and pay our respects to their elders past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, aboriginal land.

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In the spirit of reconciliation here in Australia, Compostable Alternatives would like to thank the traditional custodians of this land for their care and regeneration of Country over thousands of years; and pay our respects to their elders past, present, and emerging. We acknowledge that First Nations sovereignty was never ceded. This always was, and always will be, aboriginal land.

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Commercial vs Home compostable packaging: One is still a source of pollution!

Better understanding compostable packaging in Australia in 2021

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