Today’s waste build up is leading people towards a more green approach of life. Slowly but surely, everything is heading towards biodegradable products. Nitrile gloves, which are essentially plastic-based products are not naturally biodegradable, and this is a problem because gloves are used by hundreds of thousands of people on a daily basis, and these all end up in landfills.

Innovative Gloves has worked on a special formula that can be added to the glove manufacturing process that allows the nitrile compound in gloves to degrade upon contact with soil. These gloves are able to biodegrade in anaerobic environments and are also specifically designed so that they biodegrade in landfills, thus not impacting the quality during use. The gloves remain free from latex protein and this helps prevent and avoid hypersensitivity reactions seen in Latex gloves.

The gloves have been tested under ASTM D5511 methods and have shown methane release over time caused by biodegradation.