These fasteners are specifically designed to be used with the IndES® Elastic Staple® machine. Fastener lengths range from 15 millimeters through 200 millimeters and tensile grades from standard to heavy-duty. These staples are pliable and can stretch for a wide variety of product shapes and sizes.
Our Ecotach™ Elastic Staples can help reduce waste by reducing the amount of single-use plastic that would go into a landfill environment. Ecotach Elastic Staples are made from a proprietary blend of thermoplastic polyurethane material specifically designed to degrade* at an accelerated rate of 10.63% over 45 days in landfill conditions. The technology used results in no microplastics so that when this staple completely degrades, all that is left is carbon dioxide, water, and microbes (biomass). Comparatively speaking, a regular Thermoplastic Polyurethane fastener would degrade ~0% over the same time frame and take anywhere from 20 -30 years to break down and depending on environmental conditions.
Once the Ecotach Elastic Staple is placed into a landfill, naturally occurring bacteria in that environment breaks the fastener down without leaving behind microplastics or any other harmful substances.* These products are shelf-stable and will not begin to degrade unless put into the designated end-of-life waste stream.
*We have completed 3rd party ASTM D5511-18 testing that shows that our Ecotach Elastic Staples degrade 10.63% over 45 days in a landfill environment. We do not have data showing how much time it takes for the fasteners to completely degrade.
