American Airlines Cargo has started replacing its current plastic products with the biodegradable BioNatur brand to reduce its long-term plastic waste in landfills by over130,000 lbs. or 6.4 million water bottles.
While regular plastic can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade in a landfill, BioNatur plastics will biodegrade in only 5 to 10 years.
The end products are fully recyclable in normal waste collection streams. Also, with its added strength, the plastics can be used in thinner amounts – thus minimizing the quantity of plastic use overall.
BioNatur Plastics is manufactured with a 1% load of an organic, food-safe proprietary additive that allows anaerobic bacteria to digest the plastic in a landfill. Outside of a landfill, the plastic has an indefinite shelf life and performs exactly like traditional plastic products.
According to Greg Schwendinger, President of American Airlines Cargo, replacing their cargo-use plastic products with BioNatur Plastics drastically reduces the waste they leave behind and is an important step in their goal toward a more sustainable future.


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