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Biodegradable Plastic Ecovio In German ALDI Shopping Bags |
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The large German discount supermarket chain ALDI SÜD is now offering its German customers shopping bags made of BASF’s
biodegradable plastic Ecovio®. These bags are manufactured for ALDI by
the VICTOR Güthoff & Partner Group, headquartered in Kerpen,
Germany.
The plastic Ecovio consists of Ecoflex® and of polylactic acid
(PLA), which is obtained from corn, a renewable raw material.
Chemically speaking, Ecoflex is a petrochemical-based polyester. And
yet, thanks to its special molecular structure, it can be digested by
microbes under precisely defined conditions: it is completely
biodegradable according to European standard EN 13432.
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