Are KeyRingThing Cards Earth-Friendly?
All of our KeyRingThing Cards are now printed on Clean Earth bioPVC card stock. This is a rigid PVC product made from normal PVC resin. Patent Pending ingredients are added to the base formula to make the PVC film biodegradable. There are no adverse effects to physical properties, and the Clean Earth bioPVC film has recently received ISO 7810 certification. Performance of the biodegradable card film is the same as standard PVC film. Under normal everyday usage, the material maintains its integrity and can get wet, be left on the shelf, or left in a wallet without breaking down. The biodegradation process begins only when the Clean Earth bioPVC TM film is introduced into a fertile environment (compost, land fill, trash dump, the ground, lakes, rivers and the ocean) that allows microorganisms to come into constant contact with the Clean Earth bioPVC TM film. Once that happens, the “special ingredients” attract microorganisms that begin to break the hydrogen-carbon chain that exists in th
