"I am a Hindus, the sun, the land, the water for me there are gods, for their own offspring do not survive in the garbage, we must make a change." He is "Ashwath Hedge", EnviGreen founder, he not only selected The 2017 "Forbes" magazine '30under30', but also to the environmental protection departments have been boiling because of him, all because he has a can change the invention of the world.
The environmental pollution of plastic bags is devastating, but because of its ease of use and low cost, it is still widely used, and even more helplessly, it takes 200 years for the plastic to degrade, Resulting in irreversible harm.But now the 24-year-old Indian brother, even opened a plastic bag eaten up!
Ashwath went to a dozen countries in Europe, visited many experts, learned and understood the latest technology, is expected to be able to make a, completely Environmental pollution-free plastic bags.Although there are biodegradable plastic bags on the market, but more or less, all contain some harmful substances, can not achieve the desired effect in his mind, so he set 100 director, the use of One hundred kinds raw material , Done thousands of experiments, a full time-consuming 4 years, and finally let him find the perfect formula and process.
Ashwath developed this plastic bag, raw materials are basically come from the field, the raw materials mainly include sweet potato, corn, potato and other natural starch, and vegetable oil derivatives in a certain percentage of reconcile made, and the use of special processes for processing and Even the top of the plastic bag is printed with edible inks, and his final product is actually a 'snack' in the shape of a plastic bag, even if it is released into the natural world without worrying about small animals Because eating it affects health, and the plastic bag is very strong and durable, looks like a real plastic bag.
It is very critical, if it is used as waste incineration, it will not like ordinary plastic as the release of toxic gases will not have irritating smell, and this plastic bag degradation rate is very fast, in the Nature in the normal case only 180 days can be automatically degraded, and ordinary plastic bags will need 200 years.
If the slow degradation of the words, as long as it is buried in the soil that only 45 days to complete the degradation, and it floats to the river only need 1 day, soaked with water only need only 15 seconds.
See here, many of my friends will certainly think that this plastic bag made of food is not expensive? In fact, this is not the case, the cost of this plastic bag, only about 35% higher than ordinary plastic bags, And now only 1,000 tons per month capacity, when the subsequent production capacity continues to expand, the cost can be reduced a little.Compared to ordinary plastic bags need to be degraded 200 years, the plastic bag 35% higher price is not very high, From the perspective of overall environmental protection is still very cost-effective and can reduce the cost of a lot of junk episodes.
Just last February, Ashwath took his 'plastic bags to eat' and took part in Qatar's State Environmental Protection Day. Suddenly, the environmental protection departments of various countries boiled and invited him to set up factories in his own country to carry out products Production, while the fastest-running United Arab Emirates and Qatar now have the full roll-out of the plastic bag. Ashwath was also named for the Forbes magazine - 30 under 30 elite.