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[โ€“] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know what you are doing in the plastics industry, but it seems that you don't understand what words "biodegradable" and "plastic" mean.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

PLA is biodegradable. Just only under industrial conposter conditions so yeah still a problem.

But a plastic is just a chain of polymers, it makes it difficult but not impossible to biodegradability depending on chemical and structure. Almost all plastics don't but some do