ENSO Plastics

ENSO Plastics is the global leader of environmental plastic solutions. With the expertise and experience to understand your needs, we provide a full spectrum of solutions from compostable, landfill biodegradable, marine degradable, renewable (bio-based) and customized solutions that lower your carbon footprint and meet the high performance demands of today’s products while ensuring the most environmental approach. At ENSO Plastics, we are committed to providing you with specialized technologies to create plastics designed for the environment for commercial and consumer use, and bringing about consumer awareness to advance environmentally sound principles that secure a better future for the generations to come.

ENSO Plastics was created with a vision of making the world a cleaner place through plastic solutions that are better for the environment. Our goal is to end plastic pollution by developing earth friendly plastic solutions.In addition to bringing environmentally friendly bottles and other plastic products to market, we believe that an important part of our business is working together with manufacturers, consumers and governments to provide information and education about biodegradable plastics.

At ENSO, we believe that a true environmental approach requires working together to find solutions that lead us to achieving the right environmental long-term goals. Our long-term goals include developing renewable and sustainable plastics which are made from non-food sources. Our future products will not only address plastic pollution but will also assist in reducing our dependency on unsustainable resources such as petroleum.The name, ENSO reflects the concept and life cycle of our products. Our name and logo, ENSO, is presented as a circle which represents wholeness and the returning to where things initially began. Plastics using ENSO reflect this precept, originating from the earth, providing a value of use, and returning to the earth in a reusable natural organic state.

Why ENSO Biodegradable Plastics?

It is estimated that more than 100 billion plastic bottles are added to landfills each year. When a traditional plastic bottle enters a landfill, it can take thousands of years to break down - if ever. As you can imagine, this can have a profound impact on our environment.In order for plastics to properly break down, tiny microscopic organisms must find the discarded products an irresistible morsel, and begin consuming it bite by bite. Only then, can the item be broken down entirely. Traditional plastics are unattractive to microbes and therefore inedible.

Many products on the market claim to be biodegradable but are in fact only compostable and are unable to degrade in a landfill environment, or the product simply breaks down into smaller pieces (plastic flakes).ENSO accelerates the natural biodegradation of plastics in biologically active landfills and anaerobic digesters as validated by independent certified laboratories using internationally recognized test methods. Plastics enhanced with ENSO are also FDA recognized materials which are deemed 'food grade'.

Testing and Validation Data

ENSO is comprised of organic materials designed to attract microbial activity. These microorganisms upon consuming the ENSO material excrete enzymes that weaken and depolymerize the plastic. The final result is biogases and inert humus.Most plastic products on the market today cannot attract enough (if any) microbial activity to begin breaking down the polymer's molecular structure, thus leaving the process of reclamation to light, heat, mechanical stress and moisture.

An important characteristic of ENSO bottles is the ability to maintain the same physical properties (shelf life, texture, appearance, oxygen transfer rate, etc.) as traditional PET plastic bottles and the ability to be recycled alongside traditional PET bottles. Many other products on the market have a severely reduced shelf life and contaminate the PET recycling stream.

Our product lines include:

ENSO RESTORE - Additive technology to enhance the biodegradation of traditional materials, including PET, PE, PS, PVC, Nitrile, Rubber, Latex, Phenol, PP, adhesives and more. These materials enhanced with ENSO RESTORE biodegrade 90% faster than without ENSO RESTORE. This includes biodegradation within landfills, as validated by independent certified laboratories using ASTM International test methods.

• Cost Effective
• Easy to implement drop-in additive - added at 1%
• Landfill biodegradable - from microbial process
• Does NOT breakdown from oxygen or UV (not oxo-degradable)
• FDA compliant and safe for food contact
• No loss in physical properties or shelf-life
• Maintains recyclability
• Provides an end-of-life solutions for both recycling and/or landfill options
• ASTM D5526, ASTM D5511, ASTM D5988 and BMP (Bio-Methane Potential) biodegradation validation
• Biodegrades in both anaerobic and aerobic environments

ENSO RENEW

Renewable biopolymer used as a standalone polymer or as a polymer replacement for PE and PP. This ASTM D6400 certified bio-resin is made from agricultural waste material, is fully edible, home and industrial compostable, marine degradable and is semi-water soluble.

• Renewable resin
• Made from agriculture industry waste processes
• 70% lower carbon footprint over PE
• FDA compliant and safe for food contact
• Use as a stand-alone resin or blend with PE up to 40%
• Compostable in industrial or home compost environments
• ASTM D6400
• Marine degradable as a stand-alone resin
• Safe if consumed by wildlife

These solutions are critical as sustainability is more than simply “going green” and it is no longer sufficient to run status quo. Today’s market is dynamic, educated and the expectations of your customers are high. Providing sustainable solutions demands experts that understand the performance, design and disposal of your product to encompass the “3 R’s” - REDUCE, REDUCE, REDUCE.

• Reduce Cost: Our goal is to reduce your costs, because we understand bottom line is that your bottom line must be sustainable, and all environmental decisions must be balanced with expense. Our solutions are designed with efficiency and cost as a determining factor which allows ENSO to remain the leader in competitive pricing and leading edge solutions for plastics sustainability.

• Reduce Materials: ENSO solutions allow you to reduce the amount of petroleum based material used in your applications, compared to alternative green solutions. Our biodegradable and renewable solutions are used in very thin films and light-weighted packaging without loss in performance and properties, many manufacturers find increased performance and the ability to further lightweight materials when using ENSO solutions.

• Reduce Waste: There are two primary forms of waste; scrap during manufacturing and product waste after use. ENSO has eliminated the historical high scrap rate due to processing difficulties and material incompatibility with alternative plastics. With ENSO you received fine-tuned solutions that easily integrate in your machines and processes. And, whether your product is disposed of in a landfill, marine or compost environment, ENSO has the solutions for your application and prevent long term waste problems.

Environmental Solutions

At ENSO Plastics™, we are committed to making the world a better place for future generations. We strive to conduct ourselves and our business practices in alignment with our core values and hold ourselves to a higher level of accountability which extends past the boardroom. Join us in a tour through some of the current concerns and remedies in the world of biodegradable and recyclable technologies.In an effort to help us convert our values into actions, we have established an Environmental Stewardship Program. The program is designed to help others promote environmental stewardship within their communities, and advance environmentally sound principles that secure a better future for the next generation.