Agricultural biodegradable film

One of the efforts of Wazin Plast Group of Factories in the direction of protecting the environment and preserving natural resources is the production of degradable plastics. Agricultural biodegradable film is an example of these efforts, which is produced using the best and highest quality materials in this collection. In the production of these types of films, instead of using synthetic or oil-based polymers such as polyethylene, a lower percentage of plastic polymer is used and biopolymers extracted from natural sources are used instead. The most important of these biopolymers is starch, which is used as the best raw material for making biodegradable films due to its low price, abundance in nature, and high rate of natural decomposition.

Why is it better to use biodegradable films?

Wide nylons can be used in agriculture for the following reasons:

• Saving water consumption by preventing its evaporation
• Fighting weeds
• Increase in soil temperature
• Maintain soil moisture
• Prematurity of the product in order to release it to the market ahead of time and…

The problem related to this farming method is the lack of a specific place to bury the waste of wide agricultural nylons. These plastics are left in nature after harvest. Some of them are burned and some are thrown into the water, causing water and soil pollution. Accumulation of polyethylene residues in the soil causes a decrease in soil fertility, disrupts water transfer and reduces crop growth. It is worth considering that nylons take more than 500 years to fully decompose in nature due to their organic nature! With such a great threat to nature, the necessity of using degradable films is well evident. Agricultural biodegradable film is degradable by microbes and micro-organisms in the soil and accelerates the decomposition process significantly. Using this product in agriculture helps to protect natural resources and can be a suitable alternative to common plastics.

What are the advantages of Wazinplast degradable film?

Some types of agricultural biodegradable films have weaker mechanical properties and less processability compared to petroleum-based polymer materials. But the biodegradable films produced in Wazinplast factories do not have such a problem due to the addition of clay nanoparticles to them and are completely competitive with polyethylene types.

The point that should be paid attention to when buying this product is that the process of natural destruction takes place in it completely. The degradability of some of these films is only to the extent that they turn into smaller pieces and particles when exposed to sunlight. But this cannot be an acceptable measure of their degradability, because these particles still exist in nature even though they are not visible to the eye. Wazinplast degradable wide films, due to the presence of nanoparticles, completely go through the process of degradation and decomposition and are completely absorbed by nature.