Manufacture and Characteristics of Biodegradable Tableware

Introduction

Aim at reducing the plastic pollution of some countries and areas, scientists took action of improving the plastic production technology to reduce pollution from plastic to environment. The main technology is biodegradable plastic products.

Current Situation

At present, there are three important types of biodegradable plastic tableware in the world. The first one is based on natual high polymer, the second one is based on natural monomer synthetic polymer, and the last one is based on high polymer produced during fermentation process. In the 1970's, people had strong feelings when plastic products were thrown away into the environment as rubbish, its advantage of being applied so widely had become its disadvantage and burden for human beings. Because these plastic products are durable in use and will not degrade under environment condition, they cause threaten pollution to environment. Thus, people hope to use plastic that could be degraded by organic microorganisms and biodegradable plastic that could be made from renewable resources. As a result, new biodegradable catering disposables technology arised at the historic moment.



Characteristics

There are so many biopolymers, biopolymers produced by biological process and biopolymers produced by natural monomer polymerization in the natural world. All of them are of biodegradability and are the significant resources for making biodegradable plastics. Biopolymers of biodegradable plastic tableware are of essential degradability, but there are some additional agents put into biodegradable plastics to improve their performance, which are of different degradability.

Prospect

Among various types of biodegradable plastic tableware, some have already enjoyed a certain scale of consumer markets, some have not yet commercialized because of technology reasons, and some could not attract enough investment for production even though they are available on manufacturing technique. However, some will be successful in the near future. People are looking forward to more new type biodegradable paper pulp tableware coming into being and entering the market.

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Disposable Tableware Sampling Pass Rate was Low

Safety and Importance of Biodegradable Tableware

With the implementation of the "Food Safety Law" and other relevant food safety regulations and policies, the food packaging industry, product quality has been greatly improved. However, are there any disposable tableware products which have not been issued still in production and sales? And certified products are really safe and secure? There is no quality problem? Recently, the International Food Packaging Association put forward the scientific countermeasures and suggestions to solve the problems of disposable plastic tableware, disposable biodegradable tableware, as well as related products in contact with food, such as instant noodle bowls, fresh tray, tea cups, tofu box survey detected released, while the abuse of raw and auxiliary materials and additives as well as indiscriminate labeling product information.



Various Biodegradable Dinnerware is Unqualified

It is understood that, in June 2012, the International Food Packaging Association in Beijing Hyflux environmental technology consulting center formed an investigation team on the wholesale market in Beijing, Guangdong, vendors, supermarket sales and use disposable biodegradable dinnerware, plastic bowls, fresh tray, tofu boxes, plastic cups, etc. to investigate, and randomly purchased 31 kinds of products, sent to a qualified testing agency for testing. The result shows that qualified for 20 species, 11 kinds of substandard, a pass rate of 64.5%. Supermarket submission products involving 15 species, while only 8 are qualified, 7 failed. Carrefour supermarkets and Wal-Mart supermarket sales of white plastic tray detection failed. The survey found that only 70% of the sellers to understand the state of the implementation of the requirements of the market access of disposable plastic tableware, boycott the sale of illegal production license, and sales of the product can do to obtain the production license of the production enterprises, inspection report, and business license.

Strengthen Management to Biodegradable Dinnerware is Important

It is reported that China has a clear selection of raw and auxiliary materials for food containers, packaging materials and other requirements, and the majority of manufacturing enterprises are in accordance with national regulations and standards requirements, the use of new food-grade raw material production, talc and other additives used also in line with the food-grade requirements. The survey found that individual enterprises illegal use of industrial grade talc, purchased scrap production of disposable polystyrene tableware, but for qualified post-test data. Therefore, for the supervision of the production enterprises, the sources of raw materials, procurement, production, processing, storage and multi-link should be monitored in order to prevent such violations.

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