Developed by researchers from China's Northeast Forestry University, the bamboo plastic can biodegrade in soil within 50 days and offers a pathway towards sustainable plastic alternatives.
I didn’t mean to imply chucking it outside was the plan, but I do have a compost pile for food scraps and from what I’ve read it’s better for methane production to compost locally than to add biodegradable materials to landfills. So presumably the idea with creating this type of plastic is to reduce landfill usage as well.
Isn’t the big excitement that this plastic can biodegrade in relatively normal soil conditions? As opposed to the industrial composting facilities that are necessary for PLA and other corn based plastics?
I didn’t mean to imply chucking it outside was the plan, but I do have a compost pile for food scraps and from what I’ve read it’s better for methane production to compost locally than to add biodegradable materials to landfills. So presumably the idea with creating this type of plastic is to reduce landfill usage as well.
Isn’t the big excitement that this plastic can biodegrade in relatively normal soil conditions? As opposed to the industrial composting facilities that are necessary for PLA and other corn based plastics?