Patent ID: 7179245

Claim:
A biodegradable body waste collection pouch particularly suitable for flush toilet disposability; said pouch having a pair of side walls secured together along their peripheral edges to define a waste-receiving chamber therebetween; one of said side walls having a waste-receiving opening therethrough communicating with said chamber; and external attachment means provided about said opening for attachment of said pouch to a wearer; said walls of said pouch being cut from a laminate composed of (a) a layer of thin heat-sealable film impermeable to liquid and solid body wastes and of a composition comprising a biodegradable aliphatic polyester, or a biodegradable aliphatic-aromatic copolyester, or blends thereof, plasticized by one or more biodegradable plasticizers and (b) a water-disintegratable biodegradable cover layer of water-dispersible fibers having one of its surfaces uninterruptedly bonded thereto; said film having a thickness no greater than about 40 microns; said layers of said laminate being weakly bonded together and separable from each other with each layer remaining intact by the application of 180-degree peeling forces in the range of about 2 to 10 g/in.