Bioelements Partners With MSU To Test Biodegradation For Packaging Houston, Texas based Bioelements Group, a sustainable packaging company in Latin America and the United States, announced that it has entered into a partnership with Michigan State University’s (MSU) School of Packag- ing to test the biodegradation for sustainable packaging. Since its founding in 1952, Michigan State University's School of Packaging (SoP) has been a leader in packag- ing education, research, and service, consistently driving innovation and advancing knowledge in the field. SoP stu- dents are trained to make informed packaging decisions using a data-driven, material-neutral approach. Over the decades, the School has awarded more than 10,000 de- grees, solidifying its reputation as a premier institution in the packaging industry. The partnership is structured as a project to measure the biodegradation of Bioelements’ sustainable packag- ing. It involves examining a sample of Bio E-8i film — one of their over 30 formulas — and its biodegradation under composting conditions in laboratory applications. The studies will focus on aerobic composting according to the ISO 14855 standard. When compared to conventional, non-biodegradable plastics which take up to 400 years to degrade, Bioele- ments asserts it’s Bio E-8i film can be broken down by fungi and other microorganisms in an average of up to 20 months. Bio-E8i packaging is durable, attractive, and complies with the regulations of each country where it op- erates and may reduce carbon footprints by up to 60 per cent. “This type of study allows us to obtain highly reliable data from a prestigious university,” said Ignacio Parada, CEO, and founder of Santiago, Chile-based Bioelements. “Such work is important because it allows us to improve and apply academic knowledge to a real product used ev- ery day, and that is very beneficial.” MSU will provide the South American company with a biodegradation curve to understand how the materials be- have during the biodegradation process under simulated industrial composting and how long it takes for them to fully biodegrade in this environment. “MSU’s School of Packaging is excited about this new collaboration and looks forward to advancing the devel- opment of home and industrial compostable packaging,” said Rafael Auras, Ph.D., Professor, Amcor Endowed Chair in Packaging Sustainability at the MSU School of Packag- ing. “This partnership aims to develop further packaging materials to be recovered with organic waste when con- taminated.” This is the first of such a partnership in the United States for the company as it has struck similar arrangements with research institutions in South America. This partnership adds to the list of milestones that Bio- elements has experienced in recent times, along with the
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