THE BONNIE BIO BLOG

The sudden boom in the daily use of plastic products, such as PPE, is adding to the already enormous problem of plastic pollution. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in a near-doubling of medical waste, with cities such as Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok...

1 October 2020 saw the ban of a selection of single-use plastics in the United Kingdom. The ban specifically covers plastic straws and stirrers, as well as plastic-stemmed cotton buds. This comes one month after the announcement that the plastic bag charge would be...

With more and more Britons being told to cover their faces, masks are quickly becoming an environmental problem far greater than we could have imagined. To manage the spread of coronavirus, face coverings are now mandatory on public transport, in shops and some...

Compostability is further broken down into 2 categories, home compostable and industrial compostable. The general difference between industrial / professional composting facilities and back yard / home composting facilities is the larger scale, mechanical breaking down / pre-preparation of compostable product…

Some estimates have suggested that microplastics regularly travel vast distances carried by the wind. Microplastics are invisible to the naked eye, but the research found that on average 365 fragments were found on every square meter of land…

PLA (polylactic acid) is typically made from the sugars in corn starch (as is the case with Bonnie Bio’s certified compostable & biodegradable plastic alternatives range), cassava or sugarcane…

Microplastics are filling the seas and working their way into the creatures that live in them. That means that these ocean microplastics are entering the food chain and ultimately our bodies. It’s not just fish and shellfish where researchers are finding microplastics…

Oxo-degradable plastic packaging is often marketed as a solution to plastic pollution because it claims to degrade into harmless residues. However, this is not the case. Instead, these products fragment into tiny shards of plastic that actually contribute to plastic pollution…

Petroleum-based plastic takes so much time to break down that every plastic item ever created still exists in some form on the planet. Plastic disintegrates into smaller and smaller pieces or microplastics. These are eventually absorbed into the environment, causing irreversible damage to the ecosystem…