Yes! Green plastic captures CO2 from the environment.

👉🏼The bioplastic manufacturing process helps sequester greenhouse gas from the atmosphere.

👉🏼 Polyethylene from a renewable source has a reverse carbon footprint. 

According to the measurement, conducted by Carbon Trust and the ABNT (Brazilian Technical Standards Association), polyethylene from renewable sources has a negative emission footprint (-2.11 kg of CO2 equivalent per kilogram of product), i.e., it helps sequester the polluting gas from the atmosphere. 

What precisely does it mean to have a reverse effect on the carbon footprint? How does it benefit us? Let's break down the terms to explain it better.

What is the carbon footprint?

It is the amount of CO2 released into the atmosphere during the manufacturing process. Some processes take more than others. Picture a still mill with all the turned on huge ovens or the meet industry with large fields full of cows.

What is a reduced carbon footprint?

Take, for instance, an electric vehicle. It avoids using fuel that generates large amounts of CO2. We can estimate the amount of CO2 that wasn't released to the atmosphere just for using an electric vehicle. If one tree of 500 kg sucks up around 225 kilos of CO2, we can say that 1000 liters of fuel is approximately 11 grown-up trees, and by not using all that fuel, you are doing good to the environment.

What? Reversed carbon footprint? Really?

One way to help reduce global warming and save the world is to take the CO2 from the atmosphere, storing the carbon as a solid, and releasing back the Oxigen. You can do that by growing trees as wood is the natural carbon storage method that nature has provided us. And that is what Biocorks by Sintecor does; on every Biocorks stopper, there are a few grams of stored carbon that was taken from the atmosphere.

We have estimated that 16.000 manufactured stoppers reduce the atmosphere CO2 equivalent to one grown-up tree, helping reverse the greenhouse effect. 

Yes! Biocorks capture CO2 from the environment.