Composting is very popular there but as far as ...
by Barney68 (2019-07-15 20:53:13)

In reply to: What about what WA state has done regarding composting?  posted by catripledomer

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I know, very few plastics are compostable. The problem is that the molecules are long and composting really only attacks the ends of the chain. Thus it takes a very long time for the entire molecule to degrade.

There are bioplastics but, as far as I know, they don't offer much improvement in this area as it is the length of the molecule that matters and it's long molecules that give most plastics their strength.

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