Putrajaya, Malaysia, 2 Nov 2009 (Mathaba) An official signing ceremony took place at the Perdana Leadership Foundation (Yayasan Perdana) between three Malaysian companies which are set to provide green solutions and alternatives to plastic bags which are currently facing world wide bans.
Bio Green Bags and Return 2 Green signed agreements with MegaSignet, a Malaysian company with international reach, as exclusive partner to market and sell their world class biodegradable products to Malaysian based organisations as well as the world over.
The auspicious occasion was witnessed by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and is wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamed Ali.
With the pollution and suffocation of sea life around the world taking place at an alarming rate due to the billions of pieces of plastic (polythene) on land and at sea, given that polythene does not degrade for as much as 1,000 years, the United Nations are bringing in bans on the production of plastic bags.
A huge area in the North Pacific, roughly twice the size of the United States, has been found to contain an almost contiguous mass of plastic floating just beneath the surface of the ocean water, and the search for wreckage from Air France crash in the remote South Atlantic also highlighted the amount of trash being dumped in the world's oceans.
Mr Moore, a former sailor, came across the sea of waste in the Pacific Ocean by chance in 1997, while taking a short cut home from a Los Angeles to Hawaii yacht race. It is believed that about 100 million tons of flotsam are circulating in the region.
The effects upon sea life are catastrophic, with countless millions of animals choking on plastic bags, and fish being suffocated by the mass of plastics in ocean and river waters.
Furthermore, the disposal and degradation process of plastic waste causes increased CO2 emissions, which are also facing restriction under conventions which will penalise governments at the end of next year, who do not meet the limits imposed.
It is believed Malaysia will face a fine of some half a billion dollars at the end of next year, if it does not get its act in order by then, along with many other countries. The fines are to be used for "carbon offset" projects to assist the poceanoorer nations that will suffer horrendous effects form the environmental backlash.
"Our products are simply from Earth-to-Earth", says Mr Ramaness Parasuraman, the Inventor and President/CEO of Return 2 Greeen and Bio Green Bags. There are 4 other companies in Europe and the Americas competing with the Malaysian company to produce biodegradable packaging, however those companies use food products, further endangering the food supply chain, whilst his Malaysian company uses only agricultural waste products.
The Malaysian products of Return 2 Green and Bio Green Bags are the result of years of research and development and are organically biodegradable and compost between 45 and 180 days only, compared to around 1,000 years for plastic products. These companies are thus set to be the hallmark of biodegradable products in the world.
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