Biodegradable Series

S&Q Plastic is proud to bring you our Green Line of environmentally friendly kitchen and industrial strength bags. Manufactured to include some of the most cutting edge resins, our Green Line garbage bags give you a wide range of applications all designed to be as environmentally safe and responsible as possible

We also use as much Recycled Materials in our production as possible. This helps to further reduce the ecological footprint of our plastic film. The Reverte Oxo-biodegradable additive technology we implement breaks down the polymer chains within the plastic, all while being able to fully control the product lifecycle.

Everything you need to know!

ReverteTM Oxo-Biodegradable is an additive technology which gives plastic programmable degradation triggered by UV and thermo-oxidation, meaning once the additive is activated, the presence of oxygen causes the plastic to have a reduction of molecular weight and become very brittle. This brittleness causes the plastic to break up into smaller fragments. These fragments then decompose further into simple elements: carbon dioxide, water and biomass. Heat, sunlight and mechanical stress (i.e. movement) accelerate this degradation process. As the long carbon and hydrogen chains of plastic become shorter and shorter and are now able to incorporate oxygen into their chemical make-up, at which point the plastic turns into organic functional groups (ketones, carboxylic acids, alcohols etc) that attract water. These transformations (to smaller chains in the presence of oxygen and water) create the conditions for the second stage of biodegradation: microbial digestion. Once the molecular mass of the plastics are reduced to below 40,000 molecular weight - due to oxidative degradation - the material becomes water wettable and can sustain a biofilm on its surface. This biofilm supports numerous microorganisms that feed off the carbon and hydrogen elements of the oxidizing plastic. If microorganisms are present (as they are in landfills) these small fragments are included in their tropic chain as food. Biomass is the organic waste of microbe cells. This process is similar to the degradation of lignin in wood.

Our Oxo-biodegradable Green LineTM of garbage bags featuring ReverteTM Technology provides the following advantages:

• Programmable and controlled degradation
• Avoids the emission of methane
• Fully compatible with our recycled raw materials
• Degrades in any environment
• Requires no fertilizers, pesticides or water
• Won't hurt forestland and reduce biodiversity