The Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize has announced the eight finalists for its inaugural prize.
It’s hard to conceptualize every piece of saran wrap, discarded sheet of bubble wrap, and plastic baggie adding up to tons and tons of waste. But pile up they do. It’s estimated that thin-film plastic—the lightweight material that’s often used as a barrier or wrapping of some kind—constitutes 46% of the approximately 14 million metric tons of new plastic that enters the ocean annually. 180 billion thin film plastic polybags are used by the fashion industry a year alone.
Ives explained that the entrants were judged not on merely making a biodegradable product, but one that “biologically degrades.” The difference is subtle to a non-scientist, but crucial. Biodegradable products can only decompose safely in certain environments, like an industrial composting facility. If, say, a compostable straw gets mixed in with trash headed for landfill, it will not biodegrade.
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