According to GreenPeace, less than 10% of the plastic we produce has been recycled, because recycling is expensive. What happens to the other 90%? It pollutes our landfills, oceans and groundwater for hundreds, even thousands of years. What is the solution? Biodegradable Future is a lead supplier of plastic additives that are changing the way we work with plastic. We have developed an additive will not compromise the physical characteristics of your plastic goods, will not negatively impact the recycling process or combustibility and, if it ends up in a landfill, ocean or soil, it will naturally biodegrade. Microorganisms are naturally attracted to carbon, a compound that plastic contains. However, the carbon strains in plastic (polymers) are too long making them impossible for microbes to break them down. Our additive changes the DNA of regular plastic to make it easily biodegrade when it comes into contact with microbes in landfills, soil and oceans. THE SCIENCE BEHIND OUR ADDITIVES Our patent technology is created on the fundamentals of building polymers and depolymerization. In the molecular world, the small sub-units that link together to form larger molecules are called monomers. Once they are linked together, they form a polymer (“multiple units”). The linking of monomers happens during a process called dehydration synthesis. The process is named this because monomers are coming together and synthesizing a polymer by dehydrating, or removing the water molecule. This is exactly how a polymer is formed.