Avery Dennison Fastener Solutions – a global provider of plastic fastening solutions and systems for the automotive, apparel, retail, consumer packaging and other industries, has launched the Ecotach bio-PP tag fastener which completely degrades within one year once it is in soil without leaving behind microplastics or other substances into environment.
Mr. Dan Riendeau, Senior Marketing Manager, Global Packaging and Retail, Avery Dennison Fastener Solutions explained “Plastic fasteners, which attach price tags and other product information to garments, are on 90% of the approximately 80 billion garments manufactured each year. That adds up to a whole lot of plastic – equivalent to the amount of plastic found in 761,581,156 single-serve, half-liter PET water bottles. Brand owners and retailers increasingly are seeking ways to reduce their environmental footprint, and this product innovation helps to do that.
As a materials science innovator, we’re excited to grow this product line and offer our customers more options and a solution that is not dependent on consumer recycling behaviors,”
A regular polypropylene fastener can take anywhere from 20 to 30 years to break down and, depending on environmental conditions while also leaving behind microplastics. In contrast, the new bio-PP fastener is made out of a proprietary blend of polypropylene designed to biodegrade in less than a year in soil without leaving any microplastics.
“With these new technologies, we’re able to offer brands a sustainable solution that removes single-use plastic” said Riendeau.
The product and its environmental performance have been verified by Impact Solutions, an independent plastics expert with more than 100 years of combined experience in plastics, failure analysis, and product development.
Source: plasticstoday
