"Bio-based materials"

Many of the products offered by Certina Packaging can use bio-based polymers. The percentage can range from low (less than 10%) all the way to complete (100%). 

Bio-based materials include plastics made from renewable resources such as corn, sugar cane, cellulose, and others. These materials are typically less envionnrnentally impacting for two reasons. First, they biodegrade (see below). Second, the raw materials used to create them are completely renewable. This means they can be replaced, unlike petroleum-based polymers.

The focus of this label is on the source of the materials, NOT on what happens to the materials once they have been used.

„Recyclable"

Plastic that is neither biodegradable nor compostable can generally be receycled. It tends to go through a cycle of collection, separation, shredding, washing, and re-use.

The resulting material is known by the broad term PCR (Post-Consumer Recycled) and is used in many things we use every day, though never in the same sort of product from whence the plastic originated. You may have a PCR kite or park bench but you won't find a PCR bottle that was once a bottle.

Rebhan