{"id":124926,"date":"2019-04-08T13:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=124926"},"modified":"2019-04-08T14:46:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:46:29","slug":"dominican-company-produces-faster-degrading-plastic-bags","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/dominican-company-produces-faster-degrading-plastic-bags\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican company produces faster-degrading plastic bags"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Manuel-Lorenzo-Viyella-Diario-Libre-e1554733452845.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124962\"\/><figcaption>Manuel Lorenzo Viyella \/ Diario Libre<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Every year some 13,000,000 tons of plastics are dumped into the world\u2019s oceans, according to a report by the UN Environment  (UNEP).  A large part of this amount is composed of plastic bags, just like the ones we see in supermarkets, the corner store, or any commercial entity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now a Dominican company that has been making plastic bags for some 6 years is implementing a process to make the bags biodegradable. Multigestiones Ayaz announced they are adding an ingredient that reduces the time it takes for plastic to break down in the environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the general manager of the factory that employs 192 persons, \u201ca normal piece of plastic takes a very, very long time to break down, but with the additive we use, under the proper conditions, the bags break down in about two years\u201d. The bags incorporate an oxy-bio-degradable agent (Reverte) that was developed by a British company, Wells Plastics Ltd. It is said to make less damaging packing materials as such as these that break down sooner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manuel Lorenzo Viyella, the manager, said that two major supermarket chains are using these bags at a rate of about 4,000,000 per month. Other clients include bakeries and coffee marketers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Environmentalists criticize that while the bags degrade faster, this is not fast enough to be a major component of litter and marine litter. In the process, microplastics are produced, potentially a bigger environmental and health issue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/medioambiente\/fundas-especiales-en-busca-de-reducir-danos-del-plastico-AP12482301\">Diario&nbsp;Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 April 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year some 13,000,000 tons of plastics are dumped into the world\u2019s oceans, according to a report by the UN Environment (UNEP). A large part of this amount is composed of plastic bags, just like the ones we see in supermarkets, the corner store, or any commercial entity. Now a Dominican company that has been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/dominican-company-produces-faster-degrading-plastic-bags\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124926"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124991,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124926\/revisions\/124991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}