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Sustainable Plastics 0

By Max There is a lot of concern about the growing plastic pollution problem, and rightly so.  Did you know? * Plastic bottles take hundred or thousands of years to begin biodegrading * 150 billion plastic beverage bottles are produced each year * 70-80% of plastic bottles are not recycled * 100 billion plastic bottles [...]

Biodegradable Plastic are You Confused? 0

Biodegradable Plastics, what does it mean and why is there so much confusion about something that sounds so simple to define?  The ASTM defines biodegradable plastics as “a degradable plastic in which the degradation results from the action of naturally-occurring micro-organisms such as bacteria, fungi, and algae”.   Sounds simple enough, so why all the confusion?   [...]