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Asda mulls biodegradable packaging
15 Mar 2006

UK retailer Asda has is considering its options for using biodegradable plastic packaging.

According to Ian Bowles, corporate social responsibility manager at Asda, the retailer is looking at using polylactic acid (PLA) supplied by US resins producer NatureWorks in some of its product lines.

Asda has had an initial meeting with NatureWorks, and is now looking for appropriate product lines to make the conversion to PLA.

Bowles says although it is too early to give specific details as to when a conversion to PLA will be made, more solid plans could be in place within the next month.

NatureWorks already supplies PLA to Wal-Mart, Asdas parent company in the US, for four of its product lines and another twenty are being trialled.

Not heard anything since. I wonder if that was another reason for the delays. Competition. The only bright spot is that since we didn't hear anything more on NW, did Asda (and therefore WM) prefer Starpol 3000? In which case a total of 24 product lines at WM are up for grabs!!
Alan

Alan, Natureworks supply SEO so there is a nice connection!
kim

God you rotten lot are about as garrulous as turkeys .......... after they're cooked!

The oily one

Somebody, anybody tell me the sp is going to be 1 by Xmas .......

2008

Oilywag,
The SP will be a pound by Christmas 2008, (but don't hold your breath)

20p would be nice! I think FDA approval of Starpol 3000 is our next landmark. If it comes before we're broke we should be ok.

Aahhhh, that makes me feel so much better!

The oily one

oilywag.
once bitten twice shy to ramp...
Think the sky is the limit. If natureworksc starts producing starpol under contract. Who knows?- walmart and tyson are hopefully in the bag.
lets just get some deals and keep everything crossed.
Don't want to be dissapointed again.

Kim re 19440

Nice connection?
Possibly.
Possibly not.

There was indeed a contract (first RNS of 30Aug05) whereby Natureworks will supply SEO with PLA (the largest component of Starpol 2000), so that a planned minumum of 15,000 tonnes of Starpol can be "produced and sold within the next 12 months".

Exactly how many tonnes were in fact "produced and sold" within this time, now completed? Hopefully more than the planned minimum, but somehow I don't get a good feeling over this.
OK, still 2 days to go!!!

More interesting is what happens now as I have seen Natureworks PLA in clear plastic (bio?)degradable trays and containers in my local M&S.

Could Natureworks be pissed off by a failed take-up?
Were there penalties for not achieving a minimum take-up?

Could SEO be held to ransom, or even blanked out, in the future if they failed in a contracted take-up?

As most of you realise, I am an SEO supporter but at each stage there always appears to be potential pitfalls or setbacks, especially when one researches back over information in the public domain. I do note, however, that the RNS was in the pre Martin Wagner days.

Tweenie re 19431
I am pleased for you that you football team won.
I still confidently predict no fall in SP on Monday!!
Looks like a good weekend for you .
Trust me. ;-))

tonyrelaxes

It is possible that Natureworks were pissed off by the low take up of PLA for Starpol products. But I am sure that if they can see the potential in it and they may be privy to things that some on this board have heard of, I am sure that their mood will change as things begin to move.

There is always a chance that a company in the states will be producing Starpol for local (US) consumption and no doubt they will need Natureworks to supply PLA to them. And no doubt, if one company starts producing Starpol 2000 & 3000 one or a few more will follow suit.

That is not a ramp; just the result of research into the possibilities once (if) the market wakes up to Starpol which may in turn help to sell Greenseal.

The oily one

Oil(y) on troubled water?

Ta!!

tonyrelaxes

Re M&S using Natureworks PLA; I don't think it is biodegradable without Starpol's ingredients which are patented. Anybody correct me if I am wrong.

Bet Natureworks had problems and delays when they were getting their new products to market.

The oily one

Oily.

M&S fruit trays Bio- or just plain degradable?
My failing recent/short term memory suggests they were the latter, but I will boogie-on down there tomorrow to check up.

binned one this afternoon. I thought they were de-gradeable, missus insists they are bio-degradeable (but not in compost heap).
I know better than to argue

Have a good bank holiday. At least the sp can't drop.
LOL

I am beginning to feel an overwhelming urge to scrape a few pennies together on Tuesday and buy more. Now lets see, who owes me money?? Mmmm ... just forgotten I owe somebody money for flowers and chocs. Bugger, well that's blown that idea out of the window!!

And, if I was really sure that nothing was going to happen with PET during the next three or four weeks, I might even be persuaded to do a shift of 50% from one to the other amongst my high risk stocks.

Anyone of a nervous disposition, do not follow my lead!!!

The oily one

Flowers and chocs?

You wooing anyone? At your age... Tut. Tut.
(I did see you at the AGM so have a general idea of age)

Oh Dear. I really did set the cat among the pigeaons with that NW reference.
I better not tell you all that supermarkets in the USA trialled bio-degradable food packaging a couple of years ago and binned it, because it degraded in the heat of people cars, and the carrier bags made from it fell to bits after half a block as people walked home (absolutely true).
USA are mad keen for biodegradable, though the Smithsonian Institute has cast doubt on its usefullness. They question whether landfill and other waste facilities are able to compost it effectively, though do conclude that a large take up may force waste companies to create the required facilities due to demand.
They also warn we should not kill the good in search of the perfect.
Alan

Alan

I do not think it is beyond the wit of man to produce a biodegradable plastic bag that does not fall apart in the heat before the shopping gets home. If that problem is common knowledge in the US I am sure that the companies producing grocery bags can overcome it.

That story tells a tale of poor quality rather than a technical impossibility.

Rant over.

The oily one

Agree completely, Oily.
I was only casting a bit of bread on the water. Keeping it balanced dontcha know!!
I am actually at my most confident for weeks, and feel really good about the back end of this year.
Alan

tonyrelaxes

..... and butter wouldn't melt in your mouth!?!

From memory, which I admit is not that good, I think that you are a trifle older than I. And rumour has it that you are Rushin around chasing women old? enough to be your daughter. Wish I had the stamina and time!

Anyway, you're just jealous. As one of my lovelies said in a class ... "You've got a lovely job, playing around with womens' bodies all day long and in large groups as well!"

Some of us have all the luck! Wish it was me.

Now about the share price.

The oily one

I predict that turkeys will be 1 per k by Christmas, will that do Oily?!
kim