"Plastic: The Invisible Enemy of Our Planet"

The Truth of Biodegradable Plastics: Is It Safe? Biodegradable plastics are  plastics   that   will   dissolve   into natural  products   such   as  water, carbon dioxide, and biomass  under   specific   environmental conditions.  Traditional plastics   take hundreds of years to  degrade ,  but  biodegradable plastics  purport  to  degrade   much  more quickly . Two  broad   categories  of biodegradable plastics  are :       1. Bio-based plastics:  They   are produced  from renewable  feedstocks  such as corn starch, sugarcane, or vegetable oil.      2. Petroleum-based biodegradable  plastics: In  our  pursuit   of   minimizing  the  harm   inflicted  by plastic pollution, biodegradable plastics have  come  as a  hopeful   option . These so-...