Biodegradable Gloves 
That Get Disposed Of With Food Scraps

Environmental Impact
Conventional disposable gloves require hundreds of years to decompose in landfill. An estimated 100 billion pairs of gloves (pre-pandemic) are tossed in the garbage each year resulting in growing piles of gloves resting in landfills each year. Laid out end-to-end, that’s enough to stretch to the moon and back 30 times.

From take-home food containers to drink cups and straws, consumers are now expecting Eco-friendly items wherever possible; especially within food service and processing operations, the hand protection you use to serve dining guests can impact your company’s image.

Biodegradable Gloves for Food Operations
While almost all disposable gloves are NOT biodegradable, SHOWA® group (the originator and inventor of the world’s first nitrile glove) has changed the landscape and introduced the first of its kind sustainable nitrile gloves with accelerated biodegradation! Featuring their Eco Best Technology® (EBT), these latex-free SHOWA® gloves offer the same protection, performance and grip as their regular nitrile glove counterparts, but are better for the planet.

Certifications
Validated by GreenCircle® – a renowned, independent certified laboratory using international test methods ASTM D5511 and D5526 -the standard tests developed for determining anaerobic biodegradation of plastics under accelerated landfill conditions, these SHOWA® nitrile gloves are certified to decompose 82% in as little as 386 days leaving behind healthy soil thanks to special additives. They also comply with the FDA food contact standard 21CFR 177.2600.

At 4-mil thick, SHOWA’s patented soft, low modulus formulation provides users  with a unique and comfortable glove wear experience. These disposable nitrile gloves are not only the perfect hand protection solution to protect food against direct contamination, cross-contact, and cross-contamination incidences, they’re also resistant against a wide variety of chemicals and can be used with many institutional disinfectants and industrial cleaners.

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