Aims and Objectives

The purpose of this Guidebook is to ensure that customers and potential customers of EPI, licensees, end users, retailers and food companies are all familiar with the most recent developments in packaging plastics: controlled-lifetime polyolefins (PE, PP) and polystyrene (PS).

The objectives of each section are designed to explain a particular facet of how EPI’s products enhance the packaging business.

• The Plastics Age
• TDPA™ Technology
• Terminology: Degradability, Biodegradability and Oxo-biodegradation 
• Product Applications
• Product Safety
• Testing and Performance Evaluation
• Disposal: Landfill, Litter, Composting and Aqueous Media
• Recycling
• Cost
• Myths vs. Facts

Authors

International Scientific Advisory Board:
Joseph G. Gho (Chairman of ISAB), Professor Norman Billingham (UK), Professor Emo Chiellini (Italy), Dr. Graham Swift (USA), Dr. David Wiles (Canada)