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World Environmental Day!

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World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action.

Commemorated on 5 June since 1972, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and encourages political attention and action.

Through WED, we are able to give a human face to environmental issues and enable people to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.

WED is also a day for advocating partnerships among all stakeholders or perhaps, even more correctly, among all species living on this one planet and sharing a common future.

WED 2010 is aimed to be the biggest WED celebration ever and we count on you to make this happen! We call for action – organize a neighborhood clean-up, stop using plastic bags and get your community to do the same, plant a tree or better yet organize a collective tree planting effort, walk to work, start a recycling drive . . . the possibilities are endless.

Biodegradable Argentina

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Oxo-Biodegradable Products Available

• Carrier bags or "shopper-bags" which consumers use to take away their purchases from the shop

• Refuse sacks, which consumers buy in rolls at the shop, and use for disposal of their ordinary household waste.

• Aprons, for the protection of garments, in the home, hospitals, restaurants, workshops etc.

• Bags to contain dog faeces collected in parks, gardens, etc

• Bin liners

• Gloves

• Plastic sheeting for a variety of applications in agriculture and horticulture.

• Plastic film for wrapping newspapers and magazines.

• Bread bags

• Frozen food bags

• Wrappers for cigarette packets

• Shrink-wrap and pallet-wrap

• "Bubble-wrap"

• Rigid products such as bottles and cups

More products will become available in due course.

Filme Institucional RES Brasil d2w Symphony

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The range of materials which can be totally degradable is extremely wide and is constantly increasing as further development and testing takes place. In general terms, this includes:

• All flexible and semi rigid plastic products made from polyethylene and polypropylene

• Virgin, recycled or blends of these polymers

• Plastics extruded by blown or by cast methods and including BOPP (biaxially orientated polypropylene)

• Single, multi layered and laminated degradable materials

Further comment:

• Extremely thick or extremely thin materials may perform slightly differently and need to be evaluated case by case.

• Some successful testing has been undertaken to degrade PET. For the time being, however, further research is in hand before this is commercially available.

• Because of the unavoidable release of chlorine compounds into the environment if PVC films were to degrade, this is not being further explored as a priority.

• Degradable films for agricultural applications are invariably required to degrade within a very tight timeframe. Conversely, the uncontrollable elements which affect the rate of degradation are at their most uncertain in this application. For this reason the timing of degradation of agricultural films cannot be guaranteed.

d2w RES Brasil no programa BALANCO SOCIAL TV Cultura 07 05 09

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Traditional plastic is a particularly versatile and resilient material - indeed its strength and durability are some of the reasons for its success in all kinds of uses in our daily lives. However, when plastic products reach the end of their useful life they can lie around or float around in the environment for decades if not collected and properly disposed of.

There is no doubt that education has a role to play in encouraging people to deal responsibly with all kinds of waste material, but in the case of plastic waste d₂w^® provides low cost insurance against irresponsible disposal.

d₂w^® environmentally-responsible oxo-bio plastic can be re-used and recycled, but will degrade and disappear in a short timescale, leaving no fragments, no methane, and no harmful residues.

d2w bags on the news! (multi language)

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Traditional plastic is a particularly versatile and resilient material - indeed its strength and durability are some of the reasons for its success in all kinds of uses in our daily lives. However, when plastic products reach the end of their useful life they can lie around or float around in the environment for decades if not collected and properly disposed of.

There is no doubt that education has a role to play in encouraging people to deal responsibly with all kinds of waste material, but in the case of plastic waste d₂w^® provides low cost insurance against irresponsible disposal.

d₂w^® environmentally-responsible oxo-bio plastic can be re-used and recycled, but will degrade and disappear in a short timescale, leaving no fragments, no methane, and no harmful residues.

Middle East Press: d2w Oxo-Biodegradable Plastic bag

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