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SGS Testing for Biodegradable and Compostable Plastic Bags
By offering third-party testing services, SGS is helping manufacturers, retailers and other organizations to substantiate their claims about the use of biodegradable and/or com-postable plastics.As biodegradable and compostable plastic bags replace older, more polluting, products, organizations want to avoid the potential costs and reputational damage of a legal chal-lenge to their environmental claims. However, the fact that different countries and regions have their own regulatory requirements and guidelines makes the situation both complex and risky.
Reducing complexity and risk
As a global provider of third-party testing services, SGS helps to reassure industry and the public that synthetic polymers manufactured from processed petrochemicals, or unac-ceptable fillers and additives, have not been used.
SGS testing ensures that plastics containing undesirable additives – such as heavy metals, plasticizers and persistent organic pollutants (POPs) – are used less, reducing the levels of poison that can enter the world’s land and water.
SGS uses a range of testing methods for biodegradable and/or compostable plastics and ensures compliance with the regulations relevant to the European Union, United States of America and elsewhere.
To discover more, please download SGS’s Get Proof on Your Plastics – And Stay Legal (www.sgs.com/-/media/global/documents/brochures/sgs-crs-biodegradable-and-compostable-plastics-a4-en-16-v1.pdf?la=en).
Alternatively, please contact your local SGS office.
HingWo Tsang, Ph.D.
Global Information and Innovation Manager
Hardlines
SGS Hong Kong Limited
Email: cts.media@sgs.com
Website: www.sgs.com/hardlines
About SGS
SGS is the world’s leading inspection, verification, testing and certification company. SGS is recognized as the global benchmark for quality and integrity. With more than 90,000 em-ployees, SGS operates a network of over 2,000 offices and laboratories around the world.
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