Symphony Environmental PLC (LON:SYM) has repeated its call for plastics in future to made of oxo-biodegradable material.
“In the oceans old-fashioned plastics are causing the death of thousands of marine animals either by ingestion or entanglement.
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“They are also disintegrating into microplastics and entering the food chain.
“The solution is to therefore stop using old-fashioned plastic and upgrade it with d2w oxo-biodegradable plastic (OBP) technology, so that it will become biodegradable much more quickly.“
Symphony highlighted the benefits of its d2w controlled life plastic in a film shown by the BBC World Service.
OBP is proven science which has been studied, tested and commercially used for more than 3 decades, it added.
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The degradation process is an entire change from hydrocarbon molecules to oxygen-containing molecules, which can be bioassimilated by bacteria and fungi which are found everywhere on land and in the oceans.
Michael Laurier, Symphony’s chief executive, said: “Our technology is gaining increasing client and political recognition across the globe, and we hope this will provide further exposure, establishing d2w as part of the solution to plastic litter."