CanBio-Degradable is a private company that has the concept of Eco-firendly in mind. It provides additional alternative on top of the existing 5Rs (Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle) Eco-friendly Concept. The bio-degradable product will be composted into the soil with water¹ after certain period of time (see product description for detail).

Why Bio-degradable product?

Plastic and styrofoam disposables made from petroleum based chemicals & additives.  Petroleum causes pollution and toxicity every step of its use - extraction, transportation (e.g. oil spills), refining and eventual production of the end use product.  Also the end use products made of styrofoam and plastic do not degrade and persist in the environment for hundred of years. Also, most major Canadian cities have limited recycle program for styrofoam and plastic (see External Link for the recycle program in the Major Canadian cities).

Paper disposables are made from wood fiber, which comes from our steadily depleting forests. Forests provide invaluable ecosystem services in maintaining biodiversity, streams, regulating climate and rainfall etc. and it is quite amazing that even today forests are cut down to be made into disposable paper products with a lifetime use of few minutes or seconds.

Bio-degradable disposable product should be last step for protecting the environment. The use of Bio-degradable disposables does not  in any way discourage use or change the mind-set of using disposable products. The product may still take a long time to biodegrade in landfills. People should consider the bid-degradable as the last alternative to protect the environment.

1. Currently, our product is in the process to obtain ASTM D6400 certification.