Trellis Earth biomass ingredients require much less energy to harvest and process than paper, and introduce no poisons to the environment, such as bleach used to whiten paper (often discharged into streams). Trellis Earth bags are more environmentally friendly than paper bags which promote deforestation.

The Trellis Earth biodegradable plastics return safely to the environment through naturally occurring biological and non-toxic generating processes. No sorting or special composting is required -- they do so in landfills at rates that depends on natural processes as the landfills decompose and disintegrate.

Trellis Earth products are made from ingredients that when decomposed become inert elements supportive of natural biological processes with non-toxic results. Our products are specifically engineered to biodegrade in the anaerobic conditions of a landfill using state-of-the-art technology.  Many critics of biodegradable plastics technology are not familiar with this technology and are only disparaging old technology when they denounce efforts to introduce biodegradability via anaerobic microbiological activity.  Making high biomass content bio-plastic blends biodegradable in the landfill has become an approach pioneered by Trellis Earth.