Let’s review how long it takes for various waste categories to decompose in landfills, along with some relevant statistics.

The ability of a product to be broken down by microbes and other biological factors is what makes it biodegradable. Other factors in biodegradation include moisture and air. For a product to be considered “biodegradable,” it must be able to break down into organic matter at a rate similar to that o

Plastic recycling has become an increasingly important sector of recycling, but it would be hard to declare it a great success story from an environmental perspective. Less than 9% of plastic generation from the U.S. Municipal Solid Waste stream was recycled in 2018.Ocean plastic and plastic shoppin

Of the 8,300 million tonnes of virgin plastic produced up to the end of 2015, 6,300 million tonnes has been discarded. Most of that plastic waste is still with us, entombed in landfills or polluting the environment. Microplastics have been found in Antarctic sea ice, in the guts of animals that live

If you're interested in starting an environmentally sustainable business, you'll have to think about whether your products or packaging are biodegradable. For such a common term, though, there is plenty of confusion about what it actually means.

Throwaway plastic has found its way into almost every aspect of our lives: from the disposable coffee cup you pick up on the way to work or the straw in your smoothie, to the hidden fibres woven into wet wipes and tiny glittering fragments in make-up.