tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542510.post3800114864817643837..comments2023-03-24T09:30:13.670-04:00Comments on Thoughts on Energy, Water, Social Development & Sustainability: Corn Hangers - Promotionally ChallengedAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18202707193541079173noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542510.post-83072029270385008592007-10-01T20:53:00.000-04:002007-10-01T20:53:00.000-04:00We're a sustainable product development company wi...We're a sustainable product development company with our first product being 100% recyclable hangers,named Ditto. We were going to make hangers out of bio-plastic but all our research revealed a long list of problems with this new material:<BR/><BR/>Corn based plastic is only compostable in municipal composting facilities with temperatures that reach 140ยบ for 10 consecutive days, an environment not possible in home composting.<BR/><BR/>Most of the country does not have municipal composting programs.<BR/><BR/>Should bio-plastic get into regular plastic recycling it will foul the entire batch and render it unrecyclable.<BR/><BR/>If bio-plastic is not composted in a landfill will last as long as oil based plastic (1000+ years).<BR/><BR/>Corporate agriculture methods have some of the highest toxicity rates from pesticides and nitrogen fertilizers.<BR/><BR/>Sadly the time is not right for this new material. We hope in the years ahead, however, that it will be.<BR/><BR/>Gary Barker<BR/>President<BR/>GreenHeart Global<BR/>www.greenheartglobal.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542510.post-21261969733302917142007-03-17T05:47:00.000-04:002007-03-17T05:47:00.000-04:00Interesting observations on these hangers - both W...Interesting observations on these hangers - both Walmart & Merrick (product manufacturers) do not provide much info at all on these. You'd expect the opposite with a product such as this. I wonder if there is a supply issue or they are being test marketed in certain stores?sustainableisgoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03445835740665179840noreply@blogger.com