What is Sustainability?

Sustainability has many definitions but the basic principles and concepts remain constant: balancing a growing economy, protection for the environment, and social responsibility, so they together lead to an improved quality of life for ourselves and future generations.

Vertec BioSolvents Sustainable Technologies

We manufacture our products with renewable feedstocks, corn, soy, and citrus fruits.  All of these are grown right here in the United States. 

Vertec BioSolvents Sustainable Economics

Our raw materials come from within the U.S. Borders.  We are not dependent upon other nations to supply us with raw materials.  This has helped to sustain the U.S. economy within its borders and not deplete the finite resources of the world.  Having been supplied from within the U.S. with U.S. resources, we can offer much more price stability than our competitors.

Vertec BioSolvents Biodegradability

A “biodegradable” product has the ability to break down, safely and relatively quickly, by biological means, into the raw materials of nature and naturally dissipate into the environment.  These products can be solids biodegrading into the soil (which we also refer to as compostable), or liquids biodegrading into water.  Vertec BioSlovents products are 100% biodegrade to lactic acid and other organic compounds, which is consumed by micro organisms in the soil, and water. 

Vertec BioSolvents Carbon Neutral

Biosolvents are carbon neutral, even though using or burning those releases CO2.  The carbon in the biosolvents comes from photosynthesis, where CO2 is captured from the atmosphere by a plant and turned into glucose.  The glucose can then be turned into more complicated molecules such as sugars, starches, oils and proteins.  Sugars and starches can easily be converted into biosolvents.  Carbon is removed from the atmosphere, stored in plants for a few months, and then released when the biosolvents are used or burned.  For every gram of CO2 released by using or burning a biosolvent, there was a gram removed from the atmosphere by photosynthesis just a few months ago. This perfect balance is why biosolvents are carbon neutral.