WATER-MODIFIABLE FLUSHABLE POLYOLEFIN-CONTAINING FILM

摘要

A water-modifiable polyolefin-containing film having greater than about 55 weight percent of a polyolefin and less than about 45 weight percent of poly(ethylene oxide). Desirably, the polyolefin can be modified by grafting onto the polyolefin from about 0.1 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of a monomer selected from 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate or polyethylene glycol ethyl ether methacrylate. More desirably, the polyolefin and poly(ethylene oxide) have grafted thereto a total of from about 0.1 weight percent to about 30 weight percent of the monomer. The polyolefin-containing film, when immersed in water for about 30 seconds, will have a loss of a least 10 % in two or more of the tensile properties: percent strain-to-break, peak stress, energy-to-break and modulus when compared to the dry or pre-immersion values.