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Insightful webinar from Inolex on biodegradability claims and greenwashing. According to Inolex, consumers increasingly want to see biodegradability of formulated products as evidence of product sustainability and reduced environmental impact. It's important to have the appropriate evidence and to get expert advice in making biodegradability claims in order to avoid the pitfalls of greenwashing! https://lnkd.in/eD3CSjwu
Jason Snape
5mo
Biodegradability is important as is the evidence for non-persistence. However, biodegradability does have an environmental impact. If everything was rapidly biodegradable then the carbon dioxide emissions would be huge. I'm not convinced the degradation of chemical goods is captured in all Scope 3 GHG emissions that are reported.
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4moThanks for the heads up on the link Chris, will follow up on the series. Biodegradability is a big topic in the agricultural inputs industry but it alone probably isn't enough. The intermixing of technical chemicals into the biosphere creates a contamination problem as you've hinted at with your endocrine disrupter posts. Biodegradability + non hazardous ingredients materials is closer to where I think many products are going to need to be.