Biowrap plastic uses a proprietary organic additive to make our plastics landfill-biodegradable whilst still being recyclable where recycle facitities exist. This means that the plastics will decompose under typical landfill environmental conditions up to 90%  faster than traditional plastics (years to decades not centuries) which have an indefinite life span.

The biodegradation only begins when the plastic is exposed to a microbe rich environment such as in a modern municiple landfill. The additive attracts microbes to the plastic and they start to digest it.   As they do this, the enzymes the microbes secrete cause the plastic polymer molecules to breakdown into non plastic intermediates, which the microbes can then begin to digest them too producing a humus-like material (organic matter that cannot break down any further) which is a natural plant fertilizer.