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Biobased Toys Look Like Winners

July 30, 2007

I have never been a big fan of biodegradable plastics, primarily because of what I consider bogus marketing. There is no environmental advantage to biodegradable packaging unless you’re the type who throws wrappers out of your car window. Properly run landfills are anaerobic. That is, they have no air or water because material degradation is an environmental problem. Chemicals leach into aquifers or form methane gases that contribute to global warming.

 

A company called Green Toys is now launching toys made from biodegradable plastic. Their pitch is simple and fair: plastics made from corn or potatoes use less energy to produce than plastics made from oil. There is no documentation of that claim on their Web site, however, and there should be because fuel made from corn (ethanol) may consume more petroleum than it saves. Furthermore, Green Toys use biodegradable colorants supplied by PolyOne Corp. That sounds like a real winner.

 

Green Toys also uses packaging made from recycled materials. Again another real score.

Posted by Doug Smock on July 30, 2007 | Comments (4)

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December 21, 2007
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October 6, 2007
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August 9, 2007
In response to: Biobased Toys Look Like Winners
Chas. Colburn commented:

Doug,

Thanks for your analysis of the Green Toys Company''s products. There will be many people and companies jumping on the ''green bandwagon'' and your separation of the real green vs. the fake green aspects will help keep the green movement on track. Cheap petroleum is a problem and the real cost of it''s use is many times hidden from consumers in this exact way.

Keep up the good work,
Chas.

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