Masks have become an everyday necessity, a consensus that most people have consciously followed since the outbreak of the COVID-19. An American magazine estimate that in 2020, approximately 129 billion masks will be used and discarded worldwide monthly, and most of them are disposable!

The same is accompanied by a huge number of mask packaging, and almost all of these disposable packaging are from fossil-based plastic products. If not properly handled, they will not only pose a great threat to the ecological environment, but also weathering into a large amount of micro-plastics, which will enter the human body through breathing and drinking water, endangering human health.

At present, the global epidemic is still growing, and we can’t live without the mask in a short time, how can we make the mask packaging no longer a threat to our environment? It might be better to avoid it from the source and solve it from the raw material end by producing and promoting bio-based biodegradable environmental packaging. BiONLY^®, the first bio-based biodegradable film that can be mass produced in China, can help to achieve this goal.

The raw material polylactic acid of BiONLY comes from starch extracted from plants. and also has controlled degradation properties and can be fully degraded to water and CO2 within 8 weeks under industrial composting conditions, thus achieving a perfect cycle.

At the same time, BiONLY^® has the characteristics of wide adaptability for printing, heat sealable, high transparency, etc. It can help the mask packaging achieve degradability without changing the processing method and processing equipment.

The pollution problem of mask packaging is an urgent issue nowadays, and the  biodegradable material represented by BiONLY^® provided us a solution to make a perfect balance between guarding health and achieving environmental sustainability!