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Introduction to d2w on the BBC World Service
Introduction to d2w on the BBC World Service.
About this update from Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc
[{"type":"text","content":"\n \nRNS Number : 2594D Symphony Environmental Tech. PLC 30 January 2018 \n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n \n30 January 2018\n\n\n\n\n \nSYMPHONY ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES PLC\n(\"Symphony\")\n \n \nShort film introducing d2w on the BBC World Service website\n \nSymphony Environmental Technologies Plc are pleased to announce the release on the Storyworks website of the BBC World Service of a short film introducing d2w oxo-biodegradable (controlled-life) plastic technology. \n \nTo view the film outside the UK, please click on the following link. \nhttp://www.bbc.com/storyworks/the-british-bid/symphony \n \nor via Youtube or the Symphony Environmental website below: \n \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQzT9E72fjQ&feature=youtu.be\n \nhttp://www.symphonyenvironmental.com/d2w/d2w-brochure-5/\n \nThis film is timely given the fact that plastics are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. Plastic litter is a serious global problem not only causing a visual intrusion, but clogging waterways and drains and harming wildlife. In the oceans old-fashioned plastics are causing the death of thousands of marine animals either by ingestion or entanglement. 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. OBP is proven science which has been studied, tested and commercially used for more than 3 decades. \n \nIt is important to understand that these upgraded plastics do not create microplastics. This is because 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. This point is crucial to an understanding of OBP technology.\n \nOBP plastic is fully consistent with the principles of Reduce, Re-use, and Recycle, because (unlike bio-plastics) it can be recycled. It has a useful service life where it is indistinguishable from conventional plastics, but if it escapes collection and ends up in the open environment as litter, it will degrade and biodegrade in t...