OREANDA-NEWS. Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc (AIM: SYM), global specialists in "making plastic smarter", with d2w controlled-life, d2p anti-bacterial and d2t anti-counterfeiting technologies is pleased to announce that Michael Laurier, CEO of Symphony Environmental Technologies Plc was a guest speaker at the 'One Ocean, Science for Sanctuaries Symposium" on 5 March 2015 at the United Nations in New York.

The issue of healthy oceans affects millions of people around the globe and plastic pollution has a major impact on wildlife and coastal communities. It is well known that there are "ocean garbage patches" comprising thousands of tonnes of floating plastic waste.

Laurier explained that "there would be no ocean garbage patches if all the disposable plastic items had been made with oxo-biodegradable technology, which does not just break up the plastic, it actually converts it into non-toxic biodegradable materials at the end of its useful life."

Laurier continued "The UAE, Pakistan, and seven other countries have concluded it is not practicable to ban plastic products, nor to prevent some of them getting into the ocean, so they have legislated to make oxo-biodegradability mandatory."

About Symphony Environmental Technologies plc

Symphony has developed a range of additives, concentrates and master-batches marketed as d2p which can be incorporated in a wide variety of plastic and non-plastic products and applications so as to give them protection against many different types of bacteria, fungi, algae, mold and insects.