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Bio-based EPS Offers New Packaging AlternativeBio-based EPS Offers New Packaging Alternative

Fast-degrading packaging replaces traditional polystyrene foam without sacrificing quality or performance.

Staff

January 14, 2025

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BioEPS’s special additive enables the material to break down in a bio-reactive landfill by 92% over four years without creating microplastics.DGeo/Rick Lingle via Canva

DGeo has partnered with Lifoam Industries LLC, a subsidiary of Altor Solutions Inc., to offer sustainable packaging solutions designed to store and move temperature-controlled goods safely and compliantly. 

Lifoam’s BioEPS (formerly known as EVG) packaging provides an alternative to traditional expanded polystyrene (EPS), aka PS foam, that will degrade in a bio-reactive landfill without sacrificing convenience or performance.

Traditional PS foam used in coolers or as an impact barrier is not biodegradable, taking hundreds of years to decompose. 

BioEPS packaging, however, uses a bio-based additive that allows the material to break down in a bio-reactive landfill by an average of 92% over four years without leaving behind microplastics.

“The tens of millions of traditional EPS foam products used annually are not sustainable and conflict with many green initiatives,” says John Glaser, director, packaging development, DGeo. “Adding BioEPS packaging to our product portfolio allows us to provide an environmentally friendly replacement to traditional EPS that delivers the same quality and function for a comparable price.”

BioEPS packaging provides a drop-in replacement for any traditional EPS application for temperature control, impact protection, and void fill. 

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BioEPS packaging can be recycled where EPS is accepted.

Scott Dyvig, senior director, new business development, Lifoam, adds, “EPS has been a mainstay in cold chain and protective packaging for many years due to its high performance in thermal and physical applications and proven to be a challenge to replace, even in the face of heightened scientific and cultural awareness around its environmental impact. By utilizing BioEPS packaging, companies and consumers can get all the benefits of traditional EPS with a better end-of-life story.”

DGeo is the new DG Solutions Division at Labelmaster.

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