Blog #8 - Greening Awesomeness

             As a company, an important ability to have for your products are to make them 

environmentally friendly. The product and company I chose for this blog is Glad. They’ve created 

a biodegradable composite bin linear, eliminating the plastic one’s results in huge decrease in 

the use of plastic for such a common and useful product. Along with it being biodegradable, 

they’ve added scents to the bin liners to freshen up the smell from the bin while there’s waste in 

it, just a bonus attribute! These bin liners “meet the requirements of municipal compost 

programs, ASTM D6400 standards and are certified compostable by the industry standards.” 

These are such an important product for the environment because they don’t produce any toxins 

when they break down into the ground and create healthy soil on top of that. Glad introduced 

this product to make households more sustainable and environmentally friendly. Joy Delis of the 

marketing section stated, “We are developing products that reflect our sustainability vision.” The 

history of this was originally developed for Australian households and give them better options to 

make sure plastic composite bags were used far less to reduce the carbon footprint. This shows 

that many more companies can develop products that can completely remove the use of plastic, 

an idea that it simple and extremely effective for the environment. 






References: 

https://www.c-store.com.au/glad-launches-new-green-range/

https://www.glad.ca/product/glad-100-compostable-bags-small-10-litres-lemon-scent-20-compost-bags/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwqoibBhDUARIsAH2OpWiRpcxIqWaK3pB4AgulIx-vf8eTIgqfGYrOfPm5FzhtWCQhWsomWT8aAv17EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

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