For compostable and soil biodegradable products, it is important to ensure that these products not only biodegrade but also to assess how the final item disintegration under standardized endof-life conditions takes place. Typically for films products, slide frames are used which hold the film in a specific environment for a number of days, which allows good retrieval of the test sample. The extent of disintegration is then analyzed using automatic analysis algorithms.
Constanze Risse, lab digitalization specialist, analyses samples from a soil disintegration experiment on a light box.