Waste Free Bundles Biodegradable Consumables for Customers
25 Feb 2026
New partnership with Biogone Landfill-Biodegradable Plastics
Waste Free Systems
Today, Waste Free Systems announced a new partnership with Australian bio-plastics product company Biogone. Waste Free Systems is now offering to bundle landfill-biodegradable nitrile gloves and bin liners into their salon recycling collection service.
Salons go through a vast quantity of gloves and soft-plastic bins liners each week in the general course of business. Typically these items are disposed of into general waste as they're commonly not easily recycled. In a move to help salons reduce the amount of this particular type of plastics entering landfill, Waste Free Systems is now making Biogone's biodegradable products available as part of a salon's regular recycling service.
Salons can order the quantity of gloves and liners they use in a month, and Waste Free will deliver these to the salon during it's regular scheduled recycling collection, avoiding additional postage or transport emissions. The price of the products are bundled into the salon's existing recycling subscription to spread the payment out across the month, meaning that salons need not worry about ever running out.
Landfill-biodegradable plastic is made by combining traditional plastic with an organic additive. The biodegradation only begins when the plastic is exposed to a microbe-rich environment, such as a modern landfill.
The additive attracts microbes to the plastic and they start to digest it. As they do this, the enzymes (the microbes secrete) break the carbon bonds in the plastic molecule allowing the microbes to digest them for their energy. As more enzymes are secreted, more atoms are removed from the plastic molecule (called depolymerisation) which the microbes can digest. As this process continues, the plastic molecule is broken down and digested away.
For more information - https://www.biogone.com.au/faqs/landfill-biodegradable/