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Symphony Environmental India Offers Revolutionary Solution to Make
Plastics Biodegradable!

ymphony Environmental Tech- Environmental empowers govern- innovative and economical solution
Snologies, a UK headquartered ments, producers and brand owners that works for the businesses, con-
company, invented a ground-breaking to rethink the future of plastics by en- sumers and the environment the most
and scientifically proven d2w additive tering a new era of how plastics will economic, safe & sustainable way.
technology that makes plastics 100% be used and manufactured globally. As Our approach involves redesigning of
biodegradable. Offering a futuristic per the United Nations Environment the consumer plastic packaging mate-
and globally trusted solution to one of Programme (UNEP) report, about rials, where after the end of usage life
the world’s most severe environmen- 85% of plastics turn into unregulated packaging material will biodegrade it-
tal problems of non-biodegradable waste reaching oceans and landfills, self both in land and in water without
plastic waste, Symphony Environmen- and only 10% of plastics ever pro- adversely impacting the environment.
tal’s d2w additive can be used in plas- duced globally have ever been recy- When India seeks a solution, we are
tics manufacturing to convert end-of- cled. While the reduce, reuse, recycle happily here with one.”
life plastics to nothing more than a (RRR) is quite often claimed to be one The d2w technology is world’s most
soil component that is naturally bio- of the most effective mantras to solve advanced process, which passes the
assimilated by bacteria and fungi. This the problem, it is not a solution. Also, American, British, UAE, French and
novel innovation is a paradigm shift, compared to paper bags or products Saudi standards for testing biode-
making plastics behave green like made from paper, there is 70% more gradable plastics. Several global labo-
any other biodegradable substance environmental pollution than plastic ratories in the world including those
on the planet. The d2w technology alternatives. Many regulators world- in America, the United Kingdom and
has been studied for over 25 years wide could only see a way by banning Spain, conclude that our pathbreak-
and has passed heavy metal analysis single-use-plastics, though it under- ing d2w additive changes the molecu-
and Organization for Economic Co- mines the applications of plastics, was lar structure in the biodegradation
operation and Development (OECD) then considered in environmental in- process than simply fragmenting the
eco-toxicity tests. When the environ- terest. The d2w technology now fun- material, which is then naturally bio-
ment is globally getting effected by damentally changes everything in how assimilated by microbes in the soil,
plastics being released into open en- plastics are viewed, produced and thereby leaving no heavy metals or
vironment, landfills or oceans, where used in the future. eco-toxicity behind post the biodeg-
they stay for decades without degrad- Symphony plastics sees things differ- radation process. d2w is currently the
ing into the soil, the d2w technology ently. The vision goes beyond the sta- most forward-looking and absolute
by visionary scientists of Symphony tus quo and provides a solution with- way to an environmentally responsi-
Environmental is a game changer for out wasting resources on constructing ble solution for plastic products, films,
the future of plastic use globally. This recycling stations, industrial compost- or molded packaging needs. The d2w
remarkable invention is a sought-after ing sites, banning certain plastics, or technology is thoroughly researched,
solution to the global plastic waste even causing deforestation by encour- tested, and adopted globally, is now
problem. Instead of being recycled, if aging paper use. Speaking on the sci- being offered to plastic manufacturers
the end-of-life plastics reach landfills entifically proven d2w bio-degradable in India. It can be used in both food
or oceans, they are intrinsically con- formulation, Sunil Panwar, CEO of and non-food applications. It does not
verted to CO2, water and biomass Symphony Environmental India, said, change the mechanical and opaque
through natural microbial action in a “We wanted to find a solution for properties of the packaging material
span of 17 to 22 months.
the plastic packaging materials which during its usage life. It issuitable for
Several countries in the Middle East doesn’t require banning of plastics and multiple applications in LDPE, LLDPE,
have already legislated to manufac- doesn’t put our valuable resources un- HDPE, BOPP, PP Films, PP Raffia, In-
ture biodegradable plastic with such der stress. When plastics are a major jection Molded, Blow Molded, Ther-
additives mandatory. With the inven- environmental concern, at Symphony moformed (PP) products.
tion of d2w technology, Symphony Environmental, we strived to find an

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