$706M can be saved by converting to bioplastic containers: report

In Massachusetts, U.S. Aragonite Enterprises reported that USDA lab research confirmed Argaonite’s Oshenite brand as a renewable resource. The company said that it is playing a leading role in an important USDA grant project out of Iowa State to build 100% biorenewable content for bioplastic crop containers for the horticulture industry.

Robert Graves, professor of Horticulture at Iowa State, said that an estimated $706 million will be saved annually by the specialty crop industry by converting from petroleum-based containers to bioplastic containers.  Aragonite sources their Oshenite from a naturally occurring precipitation of oolitic calcium on the Bahama Bank.