Nature Contribution
Ensuring the future of life and the earth
Fight Climate Change with our Bio-PE Straws!
In PT Primaplast Indonesia, sustainbility plays an important role in the company’s production activities. PT Primaplast Indonesia actively supports sustainability and contributes to nature as nature has created the resources needed for our business development.
Sumber : https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2023/
Since 2015, UN Member States have shared a blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and in the future, with a target of full implementation by 2030. At the heart of the blueprint are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which is an urgent call for all countries – developed and developing – to take action in global partnership. Of the 17 SDGs, we aim to make a significant contribution to the most important and urgent goal – fighting climate change.
The increasing temperature of the earth contributes greatly to natural disasters, such as rainforest fires, floods, rising sea levels, and a large number of financial losses and prevention efforts. The UN estimates that by 2030 we need to reduce GHG emissions by 43%, and reach zero by 2050.
This is where our Bio-PE straws come into play. Bio-PE, short for biomass plastic, is made from renewable organic resources derived from plants – specifically sugar cane. Throughout its life cycle, Bio-PE actively reduces CO2, and contributes to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Bio-based PE is a good alternative to conventional fossil polyethylene.
Why sugarcane?
Sugarcane has been recognized as a stable and sustainable bio-ethanol resource in Brazil, where the raw material for Bio-PE straws is produced. Commonly grown on degraded pasture land, sugar cane helps restore the soil and increase its carbon content.
Sugarcane bagasse, a waste product from the crushing process, is often used to generate electrical power to supply the entire ethanol production process, making it energy self-sufficient, while excess electricity is sent to the power grid, thereby adding clean energy to Brazil’s energy matrix.
Using ethylene as a raw material made from sugarcane-based bioethanol, Biopolyethylene is produced through the same polymerization process as conventional procedures. But here, the use of inexhaustible resources and CO2 emissions are drastically reduced.
The green PE raw material made from sugar cane is colorless and tasteless; The finished products made with Green PE are the same as ordinary plastics in appearance and performance.
Sumber : https://www.papier-mettler.com/en_sustainability_sustainable-products_i-m-green.htm
Sumber : https://bonsucro.com/get-latest-data-insights-bonsucro-outcome-report-2017/
Sugarcane plantations capture CO2 during photosynthesis. After the sugar cane is harvested, it goes through a distillation process to extract the ethanol. The extracted ethanol is dehydrated and converted to ethylene. The ethylene obtained is then processed into Bio-PE raw material.
Sumber : https://www.supremebags.com/plant_based_plastic/
Why Bio-PE?
The net content of Bio-based Bio-PE raw materials is more than 90%.
Bio-PE plastic can be recycled with regular plastic and converted into renewable raw materials.
Bio-PE can be mixed in various ratios with conventional plastics, reducing barriers to entry and making it cost-friendly
Bio-PE is very popular in the Japanese market, where almost all waste is processed through incineration. This material is suitable for this type of processing, because CO2 offset makes the CO2 emitted during combustion carbon neutral and is considered a non-greenhouse gas.
Emission CO2 Competation
The following are the CO2 emissions that we have compensated for by using Bio-PE in our production:
*Calculations carried out by PT Primaplast Indonesia, using appropriate assumptions from publicly available data from related parties, namely based on Braskem calculations (Co2 emission value of 3.14 kg when burning Green PE. CO2 is absorbed in the sugar cane cultivation process, and is carbon in nature neutral. 1.35 kg refers to the amount of emissions from production to transportation to Japan).
For comparison, the average energy-related carbon footprint in Indonesia is around 1.2 tonnes of CO2 per capita.
1 Ton of CO2 is equal to...
- Electricity consumption is 0.65 households in one year.
- 1 petrol car driving half a year.
- 1 electric car for one year.
- 72 Amsterdam – Paris journey with Thalys.
- 2.6 economy flights Amsterdam – Rome.
1 Ton of CO2 looks like...
- 500 CO2 fire extinguishers.
- The hot air balloon measures 500 m3.
- 125m3 cola.
To capture 1 Ton of CO2 emissions…
- 50 trees should grow for one year.
Sumber : https://www.climateneutralgroup.com/en/news/what-exactly-is-1-tonne-of-co2-v2/
