We've consistently preached and evangelized why food and beverage industry players should use Lastic products. They're home and garden compostable, and, unlike many products claiming to be "home compostable" or "backyard compostable," Lastic products have certification to prove it.
Lastic's crown-jewel certification is DIN CERTCO's Home and Garden Compostable Certification. Obtaining DIN CERTCO's Home and Garden Compostable Certification requires a product to biodegrade under home and garden composting conditions in just a few months.
Similarly, earning (which Lastic has) BPI's Commercially Compostable Certification requires almost the same biodegradation period but under commercial conditions.
Another home and garden compostability certificate Lastic holds is the Australian Home and Garden Compostable Standard AS5810. It requires that earthworms maintain no less than 90% of the average body weight of earthworms in natural environments. Yet, the AS5810 does not give a comprehensive soil analysis of the compostable residue.
So, Lastic took matters into its own hands and tested its straws' compostable residue against Germany's standards for product purity. Germany is known for having stringent and lofty purity standards.
SGS tested the made-from-only Lastic Bamboo Resin straws (like all other Lastic-made products) against the German Food Law Standards. SGS engaged their testing instruments and probed the straw-residue for buzz-killing heavy metals like lead, cadmium, mercury, arsenic (more Napoleon killing than buzz-killing…but we digress), and every other element grouped into the Heavy Metals category on the periodic table. They also tested for toxic compounds like various polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. The results indicated that not even trace amounts of those gross chemicals existed. Additionally, they also found that no melamine trace, either. Although Lastic has never used melamine as an adhesive agent (it uses all-natural starch as a binder), many companies use melamine as binding agent for bamboo-fiber products.
These results are essential for client relations. They prove that Lastic Bamboo Resin is as pure and natural as high-mountain, quadruple-filtered, glacially melted drinking water.
Many people are rightly concerned that some bamboo products contain heavy metals and melamine. Indeed, bamboo grown on refurbished bamboo plantations, where factories once sat, or bamboo grown near industrial centers, might leach up heavy metals and noxious compounds belched by factories. However, the Lastic and Island Leaf Teams have always known that the bamboo Lastic uses is grown in its native, nestled-in-the Taiwanese foothills environment, far away from industrial centers. We've also relentlessly reiterated the fact that Lastic Bamboo Resin uses only natural ingredients. But we must live up to our certification and testing advocacy.
If you have an interest or further questions about Lastic Bamboo Resin, send us a message! Someone from the Island Leaf Team will be happy to discuss Lastic with interested, or even cynical, parties.
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