After many years of demanding work and research, Plasbio has finally reached maturity, with exceptional achievements and expertise in biodegradable plastics substitutes. From the wishful and dreamy idea of finding solutions for the throw-away plastics pollution, we have emerged with concrete, effective and affordable solutions. The path was long and difficult, but we are very proud of the result: truly biodegradable plastics substitutes with the same expected qualities of plastics.

In all these years of market study and development, I felt how people and public deciders were getting more and more conscious about the environment and more willing to spend time and money for its preservation.

Community budgets for a clean incinerator, for proper waste disposal, for recycling trucks, and personal choices such as healthy pesticide-free food or biodegradable products etc are now obvious and normal, an attitude which wasn't the case 30 years ago. Industries already have reacted to that change of mind, and labels such as bio, natural, environment-friendly, biodegradable are now lucrative ones. Even productors who were skeptical or uninterested had to change and adjust themselves to these new needs.

Indeed, we anticipate that biodegradable plastics substitutes should reach 15-20% of the plastic market in the next future, even if they cost slightly more than regular plastics.

The markets, the relative cost of goods and the customer’s values are interlinked. For instance, some customers may be concerned by health and environment issues, will recycle dutifully and accept to pay, sometimes much more, for bio labels. More clients are now willing to pay the price for omega-3 eggs, active yogurts, organically-grown stuff or biodegradable products. For others, these labels are more fashion than convictions, but they will nevertheless buy them : while a teenager will buy for $2 a 500ml bottle of smart energy natural drink that cost next to nothing to produce (except the smarty looking bottle), a grocery chain may adopt biodegradable green bags and build on this choice an advertising campaign to attract clients. The issue is wide and as sophisticated as the clients are becoming.

The modern producer understands these new needs, and must appraise the consumer’s values and the elasticity of prices. For example, within some margins, biodegradable packaging will likely open to lucrative businesses.

The choice for biodegradable solutions may also be dicted by rational thinking and may even end by costs savings:

A park director will wish biodegradable soap and compost able utensils and cups for clean areas and minimal waste disposal costs. A city will request biodegradable tree leaves recuperation bags, bags that will compost at the same rate as the tree leaves (so no need to empty the bags one by one and no more piles of dirty plastic bags). A touristy but low-income nation with little or remote waste disposal facilities, coping with the problem of plastic water bottles and plastic bags everywhere which are spoiling the paradise may find economical the solution of compost able bags and bottles.

Reliable and affordable biodegradable plastics substitutes are now a reality and readily available. Only Plasbio offers a flexible composition adapted to each one needs, a variable product life span and a formulation that can be used with regular industrial equipment.

We are very proud of Plasbio achievements.

We are eager to let you discover how unique they are.