Unlike plastics of the past, a new biodegradable plastic created by incorporating sugar into its composition disintegrates much faster under ultraviolet light
Many plastic products labelled as biodegradable are available on the market. However, what manufacturers don’t tell consumers is that they are only compostable under industrial conditions.
As the climate change debate heats up, people from all walks of life are concerned about plastic waste that overflows from landfills and pollutes rivers and oceans. Researchers at Bath University’s Centre for Sustainable and Circular Technologies have figured out a way to make these plastics more degradable in the natural environment.
The team says they hope their findings will be used in the future by the plastics industry to make more environmentally friendly plastic products by having them be more degradable. “This weakens the plastic, breaking it down into smaller polymer chains that are then more sensitive to hydrolysis.
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