This Grocery Bag Won’t Hurt Animals - It Actually Feeds Them

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This Grocery Bag Won’t Hurt Animals - It Actually Feeds Them

Avani has a solution for the single-use plastic bag problem - biodegradable, compostable and recyclable bioplastic bags made from cassava root and all natural resins.

duUam3w.jpgPeople around the world use and discard more than a trillion plastic bags each year. Now, thanks to a company in the Philippines called Avani, an environmentally friendly solution could be coming to a store near you.

The team at Avani realized that most biodegradable bags on the market were misleading — they broke down into small pieces that were harmful to animals and contaminating to the water.

As the scientists at Avani worked to construct a truly sustainable and safe alternative, they landed upon the cassava root, which is native to the country.

In a mixture with vegetable oil, Avani was able to develop bags that were legitimately biodegradable — they rapidly dissolved in warm water — and also safe for animals to eat.

So if a bag made it into the water, a fish or turtle could munch on it and be nourished. Not only that, the team suggests that animals love the taste.

The bags are called “Eco Bags” and, ultimately, Avani wants to create a range of products to compete with and supplant plastic — takeout containers, disposable cups and plates, and so on.

Avani isn’t the only company trying to create a world without plastic. For example, a company called Ecovative uses mushroom spores to create sturdy, yet biodegradable, packaging for shipping and storage. Ultimately, the company wants to eliminate plastic and even paper from the global supply chain.

Plastic is so ubiquitous, cheap, and convenient that it’s hard to forget that it’s not just completely unnecessary, but it’s also environmentally disastrous.  

“What is two cents more when you can help reduce the plastic waste that is currently occurring on our planet?,” Kumala told Fact Coexist.

Source: Global Citizen

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