{"id":111167,"date":"2022-06-22T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=111167"},"modified":"2022-06-15T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:42:40","slug":"ingevitys-capa-grades-obtain-ok-marine-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/ingevitys-capa-grades-obtain-ok-marine-certificate\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingevity\u2019s Capa\u00ae grades obtain OK MARINE certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ingevity Corporation (North Charleston, SC, USA) recently announced its Capa thermoplastic grades obtained the OK biodegradable MARINE certification by T\u00dcV Austria Bureau of Inspection and Certification. OK biodegradable MARINE confirms Capa thermoplastics fully biodegrade in a marine environment within four weeks, prohibiting formation of persistent microplastics and enabling a safer marine ecosystem than traditional plastics made with alternative chemistries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Used in applications including bags, films, consumer packaging and utensils, Ingevity\u2019s portfolio of Capa thermoplastics becomes one of few bioplastics certified as OK biodegradable MARINE, a distinction requiring materials to achieve complete biodegradation in seawater environments, where much lower temperatures make biodegradability more challenging than land composting conditions. Products tested must biodegrade within twelve weeks to achieve certification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By fully biodegrading within four weeks, Capa\u2019s certified products enable customers to address marine biodegradability requirements while reducing impact on the marine ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cMarine waste is one of the most widespread pollution problems facing the world\u2019s waterways\u201d, said <strong>Steve Hulme<\/strong>, senior vice president, Performance Chemicals, and president, Engineered Polymers. \u201cWe support the global imperative to advance recycling efforts for plastic, and, for our part, offer solutions that help plastics biodegrade quickly and completely, whether they be composted, landfilled or, unfortunately, make their way into our oceans\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional certifications verifying the environmental benefits of Capa bioplastics include GreenPla (Japan), Seedling and T\u00dcV Austria OK compost HOME and OK compost INDUSTRIAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingevity Corporation (North Charleston, SC, USA) recently announced its Capa thermoplastic grades obtained the OK biodegradable MARINE certification by T\u00dcV Austria Bureau of Inspection and Certification. OK biodegradable MARINE confirms Capa thermoplastics fully biodegrade in a marine environment within four weeks, prohibiting formation of persistent microplastics and enabling a safer marine ecosystem than traditional plastics [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"The certification by T\u00dcV Austria confirms that Capa thermoplastics fully biodegrade in a marine environment within four weeks, prohibiting formation of persistent microplastics","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,5838,5847,6406],"supplier":[15201,14040],"class_list":["post-111167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-bioeconomy","tag-bioplastics","tag-environment","supplier-ingevity","supplier-tuev-austria-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111167"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=111167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}