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Let’s make microplastics a micro problem

An additive technology that enables polyester

fibers and fabric to biodegrade

PrimaLoft® Bio™ is an additive technology that Additional independent testing concluded that the
polyester fibers and fabric to biodegrade in the soil left behind remains perfectly suitable for plant
environment. A revolutionary breakthrough that offers growth. While its high durability means it’s built to
a previously unattainable level of performance and last, its ability to return to natural elements in marine,
climate footprint, reducing microplastics in our waste water and landfill environments directly
landfills and oceans, PrimaLoft® Bio™ is a combats microplastic pollution. Circular-enabled
first-of-its-kind technology and represents a critical fibers mean PrimaLoft® Bio™ can be chemically
component to a product’s lifecycle – a safety net recycled, again and again, while maintaining the
should the product shed during laundering or end up same high performance.
in a landfill. It is simply designed to return to materials
found in nature. PrimaLoft® Bio™ biodegrades only by
hydrolytic-degradation, the destruction of plastics by
PrimaLoft® Bio™ has been specifically designed to hydrolysis exposure to moisture under certain
biodegrade in the environments where the vast conditions, which results in the scission of molecular
majority of plastics eventually find themselves: bonds, and PrimaLoft® Bio™ will eventually leave no
traces of microplastic behind. UV degradation and
landfills and ocean water. According to independent
OXO-degradability testing confirmed the resistance
testing, PrimaLoft® Bio™ reached 93.8%
of PrimaLoft® Bio™ fibers to degrade and fragment
biodegradation in 646 days when exposed to an
into smaller pieces of plastic. The PrimaLoft® Bio™
accelerated landfill environment. At the conclusion of
technology makes synthetic materials biodegrade in
this test, the remaining material was found to contain
a hydrolytic process, leaving only elements that can
no trace of plastic, leaving behind only natural,
be found in nature and work in harmony with viscose,
carbon-based elements.
cotton, wool, and other biodegradable materials

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