Verde Investment Highlights
Biodegradable While Being Competitive With Petroleum-Based Products
PolyEarthylene
PBAT
TLGY
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Tensile Strength(1)
Up to 5500 PSI
Up to 5500 PSI
Up to 3900 PSI
Up to 5800 PSI
Biodegradable
×
Compostable
Recyclable
Cost
Applications
$1.5-$1.8 per lb.
Durable packaging
Consumer products
Beauty product packaging
Automotive
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Best-in-Class / Superior
Inferior / Not Meet Requirement
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1 GRADE
$2.0 - $2.5 per
lb.
$0.4 - $1.0 per lb.
$0.8 - $1.2 per lb.
Home compostables
Often blended with other
plastics as an additive
■Rigid containers, packaging
Consumer durable goods
film & plastic bags
Wire & cable insulation
■Automotive interiors
Textiles
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Petroleum based
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PolyEarthylene TM offers strength and mechanical properties that are consistent with its petroleum-based counterparts, plus an added benefit of a circular end-of-life.
Although petroleum-based plastics do breakdown over the course of 150-1000 years (depending on the application), they will never biodegrade and end up as tiny fragments of
microplastics, but the materials themselves will never return to nature. Tragically, these microplastics attract toxins and are then found in the food packaging, air systems, and
consumer products. A recent study found that humans roughly consume and inhale more than 75,000 particles of plastics per year.
• We believe PolyEarthylene TM is an economically feasible and sustainable solution that has the potential to allow for true biodegradation and recyclability without losing optimal
properties attributable to petroleum-based plastics, such as strength, temperature tolerance, stable shelf life, and a high processing range for durable goods production.
Source: Verde/Expert Interviews, TLGY analysis
Note
1. PSI is a unit of pressure expressed in pounds of force per square inch of area.
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