Italian supermarket Unicoop is teaming up with Novamont to manufacture bags out of the biopolymer producer’s Mater-Bio, a starch-based resin.
Novamont spokesperson Sabina Lenaz told European Plastics News that the Mater-bio bag, which is 100% compostable and takes only one to three months to biodegrade in landfill, will be used to replace all of Unicoop’s 50m carrier bags in shops throughout Florence, one of Italy’s largest cities.
Lenaz says the bags are manufactured by Italian firm IPU and are compostable according to the EN 13432 standard.
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