Author: landon

It is important to understand that biodegradable plastic is not a single miracle material. This is a large family of different polymers. Some of them decompose faster, some slower, but they all need special conditions for this. The goal is for the plastic to decompose into mineral compounds as soon as possible and cease to be plastic at all. That is, petroleum polymers should not remain in the soil. That’s just for this you need to maintain a certain temperature, … Continue reading “Not a miracle”

“Biodegradable” does not mean “safe” Since the early 1990s, marketers have been trying to convince us that they can save the world from plastic by attributing to it the magical properties of decomposition. But, as already mentioned, all materials are decomposable in one way or another: only the question of time is important. Remember when the first “environmentally friendly” bags made of starch appeared? This is truly biodegradable packages (more precisely: hydro-biodegradable). Manufacturers position these bags as a green alternative … Continue reading “Biodegradable”

Decompose the indecomposable In fact, to say that a plastic bag is “biodegradable” is to say nothing. All materials on this planet are biodegradable, only some take a month, others hundreds of years. Most bags labeled “biodegradable” on store shelves are bags made of oxo-biodegradable plastic, and these are bags made of polyethylene, which introduced a special additive that accelerates its decomposition into small particles. Particles of what? All the same plastic. Only they will penetrate much faster into the … Continue reading “Mythbreaking post”